India's Secret Islands | Tamil | Madan Gowri скачать в хорошем качестве

India's Secret Islands | Tamil | Madan Gowri

Among the most significant aspects of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's five-day Indian Ocean tour between March 11 and 14 in 2015 were MoUs to develop infrastructure on Agalega islands in Mauritius and Assumption Island of Seychelles. The two island specks, easily missed on a map of the Indian Ocean, are now possibly India's most important strategic footholds in a region through which two-thirds of the world's energy supplies pass. Both are outer island territories for their sheer distance from the capitals of the archipelago-Agalega is more than 1,000 km north of Mauritius and Assumption island, 600 nautical miles southwest of Seychelles' capital Mahe. India will build airfields and port facilities on both islands. A senior naval official terms the islands as two vital pieces in a jigsaw puzzle of India's reach-out to the countries of the southern Indian Ocean. They add to an Indian listening post on Madagascar, off the coast of Africa, commissioned in 2007 to monitor activities of foreign navies in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).