About IPRD

• • The Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue (IPRD) is the apex international annual conference of the Indian Navy and is the principal manifestation of the Navy’s engagement at the strategic-level. 

• The dialogue has been held every year since 2018.

• • The National Maritime Foundation (NMF) is the Navy’s knowledge partner and chief organiser of each edition of this annual event. 

• NMF was established in 2005 in New Delhi as the nation’s first maritime think-tank for conducting independent and policy-relevant research on India’s maritime interests.

• The IPRD aims to review the prevailing geopolitics within the Indo-Pacific region and identify both opportunities and challenges arising from these geopolitical moves and countermoves of regional and extra-regional powers.

Why in News?

• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh recently participated in the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue (IPRD) 2021.