The North East part of our Country is only connected to the rest of the Country via a 22-mile narrow corridor which is a security vulnerability we need to address. We need to develop a more effective and safer connection by developing a corridor to the sea – Negotiating with Myanmar and Bangladesh to allow for a 50 Km, or wider corridor from Mizoram to the Bay of Bengal, and undertaking the construction of Highways and Rail links to the Ports to be built there. This would open up the N-E of our Country and connect the region to the rest of the Country via Sea-routes. The corridor has been obtained and work on the development of necessary infrastructure is being undertaken. We should also, negotiate with Bangladesh for an additional corridor, on ground or elevated, to better connect West Bengal to the N.E.

Ofcourse, the on-going operations and conflicts within Bangladesh with its internal elements and along its borders with others, accord us the opportunity to re-draw our border with Bangladesh to directly resolve the ‘Chicken-Neck’ corridor, that limits access to our North-East Region, and thereby remove a major threat to our Country’s unity and also allow for greater development of the region and to also resolve the many other border issues in the East and South-East of Bangladesh with our North-Eastern states.

The borders drawn by the British when they separated Burma from India and later the Radcliffe line separating East-Pakistan from India were not proper representation of the separation of populations there and in the case of East-Pakistan that became Bangladesh in 1971 the border demarcation was a really chaotic due to the many first, second and even third order enclaves, (See – Dealing with Bangladesh.)