"Myanmar had become a country of critical importance to India in terms of trade and commerce as Dhaka has denied transit to New Delhi through Bangladesh.
"We can also bring goods from Sittwe to any other Indian port by using the sea routes," Union Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh had recently said.
There is a river route through Bangladesh but that has not been a practical answer for steady commerce as the Bangladesh government was not very enthusiastic.
Further, the shallow river bed of the Brahmaputra did not allow movement of large vessels.
Image: State pavillions of Shilpgram (crafts village) at Panjabari, Guwahati. The crafts village was inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on January 17, 2006.
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