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Addressing a “NADI (River) Conclave 2022” in Guwahati, Sitharaman said : “Not just this region but the connectivity with the entire South East Asian nations can be built and developed culturally in terms of the civilisation… riverine civilisation, we have so much in common and we have also to leverage it so that people to people contact gets built up.”