Strait of Hormuz & India's Energy Security | UPSCPDF

UPSCPDF Editorial Analysis: Strait of Hormuz & India

💡 Key Takeaways | 🌊 The Chokepoint: Geography, Law & India's Exposure | 🕰️ How We Got Here — Timeline | ⚖️ Constitutional & Doctrinal Anchors | 🏛️ India's Policy & Institutional Response | ⚓ Diversification: Corridors & Connectivity | 🛳️ Maritime & Long-Term Capacity | 📊 Marks Breakdown | 🧩 Key Dimensions | 📐 Additional Essay Angle Cards | 👥 Key Actors & Stakeholders | 🗂️ Quick Revision Tags | 🇮🇳 UPSCPDF Editorial Analysis

From Efficiency to Resilience — How a 33-km Chokepoint Exposed India's Energy Vulnerability, and the Roadmap for Supply Diversification, Strategic Reserves & Alternative Corridors The 2026 West Asia conflict involving Iran, Israel and the United States triggered a prolonged crisis in the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway that is the only sea exit from the Persian Gulf. As shipping insurance collapsed and tankers were attacked or turned back, traffic through the strait fell sharply for several months. For India, the disruption was not an abstract geopolitical event: it reached directly into household kitchens and industrial supply chains. India imports the bulk of its energy, and a disproportionate share of it passes through this single chokepoint — roughly 40% of crude oil imports, around 90% of imported LPG, and over half of imported LNG. With strategic crude reserves covering barely 9–10 days at full capacity and no dedicated strategic reserve for LPG, the crisis exp