<P> India 's Look East policy is an effort to cultivate extensive economic and strategic relations with the nations of Southeast Asia in order to bolster its standing as a regional power and a counterweight to the strategic influence of the People 's Republic of China . Initiated in 1991 , it marked a strategic shift in India 's perspective of the world . It was developed and enacted during the government of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao ( 1991 -- 1996 ) and rigorously pursued by the successive administrations of Atal Bihari Vajpayee ( 1998 -- 2004 ) and Manmohan Singh ( 2004 -- 2014 ) . </P>
<P> India 's Look East policy is an effort to cultivate extensive economic and strategic relations with the nations of Southeast Asia in order to bolster its standing as a regional power and a counterweight to the strategic influence of the People 's Republic of China . Initiated in 1991 , it marked a strategic shift in India 's perspective of the world . It was developed and enacted during the government of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao ( 1991 -- 1996 ) and rigorously pursued by the successive administrations of Atal Bihari Vajpayee ( 1998 -- 2004 ) and Manmohan Singh ( 2004 -- 2014 ) . </P>
who initiated the look east policy and in which year
who initiated the look east policy and in which year
P.V. Narasimha Rao 1991
P.V. Narasimha Rao 1991