MAHASAGAR
India's Maritime Security Vision for the Indian Ocean Region
MAHASAGAR — Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security And Growth Across Regions — is India's overarching maritime security and cooperation framework for the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). Announced as a guiding doctrine, MAHASAGAR operationalises India's vision of being a net security provider in the IOR, as articulated under the SAGAR (Security and Growth for All in the Region) policy first enunciated in 2015. MAHASAGAR extends SAGAR by emphasising holistic maritime domain awareness, capacity building for littoral states, and coordinated responses to non-traditional maritime threats (piracy, drug trafficking, illegal fishing, humanitarian response).
- Full form: Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security And Growth Across Regions
- Parent doctrine: SAGAR (Security and Growth for All in the Region), announced 2015
- Focus: net security provider role, capacity building, maritime domain awareness
- Target: Indian Ocean littoral states (Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean islands)
- Instruments: equipment grants, training, bilateral exercises, hydrographic surveys
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