Question: who initiated the look east policy and in which year
Answer: It was developed and enacted during the government of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao ( 1991 -- 1996 ) and rigorously pursued by the successive administrations of Atal Bihari Vajpayee ( 1998 -- 2004 ) and Manmohan Singh ( 2004 -- 2014 ) .