The Indian government is trying to resume the India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway, said the External Affairs Minister to a diaspora of his country in a meeting in Thailand on 15 July, according to a report by Outlook India/PTI.

S Jaishankar is in Bangkok to participate in the 12th Foreign Ministers ’Meeting of the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC) Mechanism on 16 July, and will also join the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Foreign Ministers ’Retreat on 17 July.

He told the Indian community in Thailand that the trilateral highway has been a "very difficult project" because of the situation in Myanmar and it is the Indian government's priority to find ways to resume it.

“It has been a very difficult project mainly because of the situation in Myanmar. And one of our priorities today is to find ways of how to resume this project, how to unlock it, and how to make it because large parts of the project have been built," Jaishankar said, according to the report.

India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway is a 1,360 km (850 mile) long route, and around 70 percent of construction work has been completed. It will connect Moreh in Manipur, India with Mae Sot in Thailand via Myanmar under India’s Look East policy (now Act East), and it is expected to extend to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Bangladesh expressed official interest in December 2020 to join the highway project to foster connectivity with Dhaka.

After the highway is linked between India and ASEAN, it will generate annually an estimated US$70 billion in incremental GDP and 20 million in incremental aggregate employment by 2025. Meanwhile, India has offered a $1 billion line of credit for India-ASEAN connectivity projects.

Although the Indian government was scheduled to make the highway operational by December 2019, it was delayed for some reasons. As per recent development, this mega project is expected to start functioning in the next four years.