My Myanmar Years by Preet Malik

Author:Preet Malik [Malik, Preet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2015-11-11T18:30:00+00:00

Strategy for Successful Relations with Myanmar

To take advantage of the opportunity base that the new policies that Myanmar has now put in place has created, India has to ensure that the stakeholder arrangements that have been brokered by both sides do achieve the ambitious programme that the various MOUs and the Indo-Myanmar Joint Statement resulting out of the Indian Prime Minister's visit in May 2014 imply. It is imperative that India carries out the requisite implementational actions within a time-bound approach. The following actions could be some of the important steps that it could undertake:

• Set up a co-ordination group at a very senior level chaired and located within the PMO that ensures the timely implementation of projects including coordination of efforts that fall under the purview of different ministries and departments particularly for obtaining the necessary clearances covering technical and financial requirements.

• Ensure that the establishment of border area economic zones are given the priority and attention that they deserve in order to locate industry and services within them that serve not only the commercial aspects but bring to the area developmental investments that help the security of the people by granting them jobs, entrepreneurial opportunities, developing the essential and necessary skills and managerial requirements, granting to the people a long-term stake in the prosperity that the schemes are intended to bring about as part of a regional arrangement.

• Major projects that are to be undertaken, like the dams on the Chindwin River for instance, do not suffer from the lack of co-ordination among different public sector agencies that by their unco-ordinated actions have slowed down the progress of the Kaladan Multi-modal Project. It is essential that the implementation of such projects is time bound and not a pre-determined responsibility of the PSUs but is subject to a competitive approach that involves all Indian parties that are capable and have the capacity to compete and adhere to time frames. If the PPP approach is now the norm for infrastructural projects in India then it should also be the approach that can be adopted for the successful implementation of the Indian-aided projects. The need is to prove to Myanmar that India is a reliable partner who is willing and able to deliver on its commitments on time.

• Put in place a programme that grants priority to the implementation of all arrangements and commitments on the social development side. The approach should have components that are sensitive to meeting the needs of Myanmar in its urban areas and in a more appropriate manner along the border regions that have been neglected even during the colonial period and certainly since Myanmar's independence. The areas to be covered under this part should be in the areas of skills development, education and research, public health and sanitation, water and water management, extension schemes and agro-industry, timber and other natural resourcesbased industrial entities that would bring prosperity to the border regions as much of these natural resources are located in the Frontier Areas of Myanmar with India.

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