Narendra Modi is arguably the most dynamic Prime Minister that India has witnessed after 70 years of independence. He is hyperactive when it comes to the International relations. He visited more than 56 countries after becoming the prime minister of India, to make the world realize the presence of India globally.
While people criticized him for his International trips, it proved to be a major move for India. Narendra Modi was also included in the Forbes most influential list in the year 2016 for his dominance and presence internationally. He went to some of the countries which were never visited by any Indian Prime Minister.
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Narendra Modi on his peak spree of foreign visits, he visited countries 18 countries back to back in the span of 55 days. International relations definitely improved with his efforts and few major agreements were signed during his visits to facilitate India’s economy and make India a much open country to the world.
Here is the list of some of the MoU’s (Memorandum of Understanding) signed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with some of the major countries during his visits, which proves that these visits were not a vacation but an important move to benefit the country.
Russia
Russia is one of the ally’s of India as per the historic events. More than 15 agreements were signed by Modi and Russia, which involves engineering inputs to HEC, Solar Energy plants in India, Cooperation between Prasar Bharati and Digital Television of Russia.
Australia
MoU was signed related to enhancing the existing partnership between India and Australia in higher education and research to support mobility of students, skill development, and collaborative research.
Saudi Arabia
Five MoUs were signed while Modi’s visit to Saudi Arabia. These MoU includes Promotion of exports of handicrafts, Cooperation in sharing intelligence to fight against terrorism and also an agreement on the stand against Child Trafficking especially women and children.
France
Narendra Modi’s France visit focused on technological assistance from the country to help India develop sustainable smart cities.
Canada
Canada is to provide technological assistance in the field of Civil Aviation to help India flourish in the aviation sector and develop indigenous passenger aircraft
The United States of America
Prime Minister’s visited the USA four times during Obama regime and the visits witnessed major agreements between the two nations which varied from sharing intelligence to climate change and wildlife conservation.
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Narendra Modi’s visits to Neighboring countries
China
Narendra Modi rhetorically discounted the idea of Dragon vs. Elephant ideology and signed 24 MoU’s with China and around 100 billion worth bilateral trade is expected between the two countries.
Pakistan
Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to so-called ‘rival nation’ and made his counterpart Nawaz Sharif. They two prime ministers had a chat about ways to eradicate poverty that exists in India and Pakistan.
Bangladesh
There was a hearty effort from India’s prime minister to solve the problem of 50000 stateless people to choose their nationality by signing Land Boundary Agreement. The prime minister also signed various MoUs to help the free flow of trade between the two.
Myanmar
One of the richest countries in the past hosted the East Asian Summit in 2014 and NarendraModi had a brief talk with Myanmar to improve the ties between the two nations and stop problems related to the insurgency.
Bhutan
Prime Minster Modi’s first foreign visit was Bhutan. He said relation between Bhutan and India is ‘special’. He improved the ties between the two countries by announcing concession and lifted the ban on any kind of exports from Bhutan to India. He inaugurated 600MW Kholongchu Hydro-electric project and Supreme Court building in Bhutan, a joint venture between India and Bhutan and also announced increment of scholarship for Bhutanese students up to 2 crores.
Nepal
His visit to Nepal flagged of PashupathiNath express bus service under The India-Nepal Bilateral Motor Vehicle Agreement. He helped the nation with porous borders with increasing the line of credit to 1 billion.
Sri Lanka
The latest visit to Sri Lanka was all about the celebration of ‘Vesak Day’ and Sirisena said that no bilateral agreements were signed and it’s just a friendly visit.
Great enthusiasm and active approach from Prime Minister Modi to improve relations with different countries, hundreds of MoU signed in his 3 years regime is most likely to improve the overall growth and well-being of the India if everything falls in place’.