My New Mind Map

1. Arae ot cooperation

1.1. *Human resources development *Agriculture and Rural development

1.2. *Environ, natural disa and biotechnology *Economic, trade and finance *Social affairs

1.3. Energy, transport, science, technology and others

2. Achivement

2.1. Free trade area(FTA)

2.1.1. Increase their internal trade and lesser trade gap of some states

2.2. South Asia Preferential Trading Agreement (SAPTA)

2.3. SAFTA

2.3.1. Sign in 2016

2.4. SAARC Agreement on Trade and Services (SATIS)

2.5. SAARC University

2.5.1. 2010 in india where students come from all 8 countries

3. SAARC(South Asian Association Regional Cooperation)

3.1. Asia: 1. East ASIA 2.CENTRAL ASIA 3.SOUTH ASIA 4.SOUTH EAST ASIA 5.SOUTH WEST ASIA

3.2. 8 members in assembly

3.2.1. Afghan,pak, IND,nepal, Bhutan, Bangla, Sri Lanka, Maldives

3.3. 9 observer countries

3.3.1. Aus,china, European union,iran, Japan,the republic of Korea, Mauritius, Myanmar, USA

3.4. HQ-kathmandu of Nepal

3.5. Establish-8 dec 1985 by Ziaur Rahman

3.5.1. Former president of bangla

3.6. Strength of SAARC: GDP- US $3.67 trillion or 4.1(as per 2019) World area 3% Population 24%(world) & 39.49%(asia) Literacy rate 71%

4. Objectives

4.1. Promote the welfare

4.2. To accelerate economic growth

4.3. To promote strengthen collective self-reliance

4.4. Contributes to mutual trust

4.5. To promote active collaboration

5. Significance for IND

5.1. Neighbourhood first

5.2. Geostrategic significance

5.3. Regional stability

5.4. Global leadership role

5.5. Game changer for IND'S act East policy

6. Challenges

6.1. Low frequencies of meeting

6.2. Broad area of cooperation

6.3. Limitation in SAFTA

6.4. Indo-Pak relation