Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC): An Indian Perspective

This paper takes a critical look at the BCIM-EC. The paper's goal is to research the prospects and challenges of the BCIM-EC, the BRI's infrastructural and significant pilot project. The BCIM-EC is a sub-regional cooperative program that aims to connect southwest China's land-locked regions with eastern India and the Bay of Bengal via northern Myanmar, the northeastern region of India, and Bangladesh. Because of the geo-strategic and geo-economic significance of physical connectivity in the BCIM sub-region, the study tends to highlight areas of mutual benefit of the BCIM nations by and large. The BCIM-EC is proposing to connect Eastern China with South Asia, which will undoubtedly also connect Southeast Asia via various modes of improved economic and cultural connectivity.