Embassy of India

Travel Routes

Air links with India / Convenient Travel Routes

1. Thai Airways flies daily to various cities in India via Bangkok;

2. Indian Airlines flies Kolkata-Yangon (to-and-fro) twice a week on Mondays and Fridays;

Cultural Exchange

The cultural wing of the Mission has been organizing regular cultural activities besides having active Yoga and Bharatnatyam classes with dedicated instructors from India. An International Conference on Buddhist Cultural Heritage was organized on the sidelines of which Buddhist Cultural Heritage Photo Exhibition and Book on Buddhism was organized in Shwedagon Pagoda. The Sarnath Style Buddha Statue donated by GOI to people of Myanmar and installed at the  Shwedagon Pagoda premises was also unveiled in Yangon in December 2012. Cultural events such as Indian Classical Music Concert, Book Reading,  Classical Cultural Dance Evening are also organised from time to time. Mission is now coordinating with the Ministry of Culture, New Delhi to organise Festivals of India in Myanmar during the year which will include cultural events such as Indian Film Festival, Indian Classical Dance Festival, Indian Literature Festival, Exhibition of rare Indian books, Exhibition of Buddhist books/works of art and Indian Food Festival in Yangon and Mandalay.

Indian Diaspora

The origin of the Indian community in Myanmar is traced back to the mid-19^th century with the advent of the British rule in Lower Burma in 1852. The two cities of Myanmar namely, Yangon and Mandalay had a dominating presence of Indians in various fields such as civil services, education, trade & commerce during the British rule. According to 1983 official census of Myanmar the number of PIOs in Myanmar is 428,428. A large number of the Indian community (nearly 150,000) live in Bago (Zeyawaddy & Kyautaga) and Tanintharyi Regions and Mon State and are primarily engaged in farming. The NRI families in Myanmar mainly live in urban cities and are engaged in export import business or are employees of MNCs based in India, Singapore and Thailand

Training Progamme

Myanmar is a beneficiary of training programmes under different schemes such as  Indian Technical & Economic Cooperation(ITEC) Programme, Technical Cooperation Scheme(TCS) of Colombo Plan and also various scholarships offered by the Indian Council of Cultural Relations(ICCR) like the General Cultural Scholarship Scheme(GCSS ), Mekong Ganga Cultural Scholarship Scheme (MGCSS), Ayush Scholarship to BIMSTEC member countries. The training slots under ITEC/TCS were enhanced to 525 for the year 2013-2014 because of the enthusiastic response from Myanmar.

The specialized training programme for Parliamentarians and Parliamentary staff were also organized where  42 MPs and 30 staff attending the tranining course. Myanmar diplomats have also been attending training courses at the Foriegn Service Institute of India along with other foreign diplomats.