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Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a comprehensive 10-point plan to strengthen connectivity and resilience with ASEAN nations during his visit to Lao PDR. 
On Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Lao PDR, Secretary East in the MEA, Jaideep Mazumdar said, "ASEAN leaders and the Prime Minister reviewed our relations. The comprehensive relations that we have with ASEAN. ASEAN leaders very positively appraised our cooperation in many areas of diverse collaboration as a result of India's Act East policy and also they appraised very positively India's leadership role in digital public infrastructure and the fact that ASEAN countries can benefit significantly from this. The Prime Minister announced a ten-point special plan to strengthen connectivity and resilience with ASEAN. These involve a wide variety of initiatives that India is taking with ASEAN. They include, for example, celebrating next year as the ASEAN-India Year of Tourism. The ASEAN leaders all universally welcomed this as a very positive development. It was also announced that India will contribute five million dollars towards joint cooperative activities in this area. To mark this decade of Act East policy, several people-to-people and people-centric initiatives were announced..."