Presentation made at 3rd Northeast Connectivity Summit,2016 on Sub regional people to people connectivity by Mr. Sabyasachi Dutta, Director, Asia Confluence

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“CONNECT NORTH EAST 2016”
North East Connectivity Summit
21st – 23rd September
2016|Pragya Bhawan, Agartala
www.asianconfluence.org
Subregional People to People Connectivity:

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The ASIAN CONFLUENCE , DIVYAJEEVAN,
LADY VERONICA PARK
LAITUMKHRAH SHILLONG 793003
info@asianconfluence.org
Greetings
from
The Asian Confluence Center, Shillong

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CONNECT NORTH EAST
IN ALL DIRECTONS
IN MULTI DIMENSIONS
Physical
Electronic
Economic
Emotional
Psycological
Philosophical
E

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Geo Philosophical
• We need to identify common aspirations,
• Cultivate stakeholders who aim at them
Geo Economics
Geo Politics

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• I cannot but bring to your mind those days when the whole of Eastern Asia
from Burma to Japan was united with India in the closest tie of friendship,
the only natural tie which can exist between nations. There was a living
communication of hearts, a nervous system evolved through which
messages ran between us about the deepest needs of humanity. We did
not stand in fear of each other, we had not to arm ourselves to keep each
other in check; our relation was not that of self-interest, of exploration
and spoliation of each other's pockets; ideas and ideals were exchanged,
gifts of the highest love were offered and taken; no difference of
languages and customs hindered us in approaching each other heart to
heart; no pride of race or insolent consciousness of superiority, physical or
mental, marred our relation; our arts and literatures put forth new leaves
and flowers under the influence of this sunlight of united hearts; and races
belonging to different lands and languages and histories acknowledged
the highest unity of man and the deepest bond of love.
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore

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Some Basics : We know
but it needs to sink deeper

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Our Geography is KING

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We are at the vortex of maximum
number of human beings

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Small is Beautiful
• For North East Service Sectors can be the
catalyst for overall economic development
– Higher Education
– Health Care
– Bio Technology
– Organic Products
– Tourism

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1. Governmental and business institutions
must play the role of match makers
2. Finding common grounds for engaging with
the third space
3. Play on differences to create synergies

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Tourism can be a catalyst

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1. Establish Baseline Connectivity.
People must meet to initiate social and
cultural engagement.
Road Connectivity projects underway ..
but…
Air Connectivity is a low hanging branch
which if nurtured can yield fast.

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• International Air Traffic to and from India are likely to rise across all
airports in coming years
• Guwahati recorded 27.60 % rise in International passenger and 78.26
% goods traffic between 2008-09 and 2013-14
• New Routes Proposed
– Yangon Dhaka Guwahati
– Mandalay Imphal Guwahati
– Bangkok Guwahati
– Bangkok Agartala
– Bangkok Dhaka –imphal
– Bangkok Bagdogra
– Dhaka Bagdogra
• Source: ASEAN INDIA Air Connectivity Report 2016 , AIC, RIS.
– ADD
– Guwahati Paro
– Katmandu Bagdogra

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2. Special focus on Border area development:
BBIN – ASEAN Connectivity
North East States of India must look and act in all
direction with her immediate neighbours
Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal to
create border economic zones and can serve to
integrate the sub region and enable new
synergies to “ ACT EAST”.

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3 : Specialized Catalyst Programs to foster
exchange on sectors such as :
– Bamboo technologies
– Living Culture
– Linguistics
– Handlooms
– Organic Food
– Sports

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4 : New Strategies on Tourism Development

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5 : Specialized Advocacy
Programs to share research with the
wider public
Asian Confluence Young
Scholars Forum meant to nurture
and disseminate research.
Youth Camp

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Building the Emotional Grid
Tourism
Cultural
Familial
Commercial
Political

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The ASIAN CONFLUENCE , DIVYAJEEVAN,
LADY VERONICA PARK
LAITUMKHRAH SHILLONG 793003
info@asianconfluence.org
Thank You
sabyadutta@gmail.com

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Weaving Institutional Linkages for the
Future
Marketing
VisaandConsularServices
StakeholderParticipationandEducation
Completeconnectivityprojects
InterDepartmentalCoordination
SharingBestPractices
Standardization
Training

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Weaving a Grid
Tourism
Culture
AgroandForestProducts
EstabishBaselineDirectConnectivity
EducationServices
HealthandwellnessServices

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Therefore I do not put my faith in any new institution, but in the
individuals all over the world who think clearly, feel nobly, and
act rightly, thus becoming the channels of moral truth. Our moral
ideals do not work with chisels and hammers. Like trees, they
spread their roots in the soil and their branches in the sky,
without consulting any architect for their plans.
• Tagore

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Building Systems to Foster
Organic Third Space
contacts

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Creation of value chains sustained by trust and belief
in a common destiny.
• Value chains are the future for the region.
There are some preconditions. Need countries to plan adequate
infrastructure for export-oriented industries.

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• What has impressed me most in this country is the conviction that you
have realized nature's secrets, not by methods of analytical knowledge,
but by sympathy. You have known her language of lines, and music of
colours, the symmetry in her irregularities, and the cadence in her
freedom of movements; you have seen how she leads her immense
crowds of things yet avoids all frictions; how the very conflicts in her
creations break out in dance and music; how her exuberance has the
aspect of the fullness of self-abandonment, and not a mere dissipation of
display. You have discovered that nature reserves her power in forms of
beauty; and it is this beauty which, like a mother, nourishes all the giant
forces at her breast, keeping them in active vigour, yet in repose. You have
known that energies of nature save themselves from wearing out by the
rhythm of a perfect grace, and that she with the tenderness of her curved
lines takes away fatigue from the world's muscles.
• RABINDRANATH TAGORE : Reflections on Japan