During summit, eight significant agreements were signed, focusing on issues like SCO’s budget, operations of secretariat, and counterterrorism efforts.

Key Takeaways from Summit:

• India highlighted three evils i.e. Terrorism, extremism and separatism against regional peace and development.
• India did not endorse China's Belt and Road Initiative on grounds of territorial integrity and sovereignty.
• Meeting saw criticism of “unilateral sanctions” that Western nations have imposed e.g. on Russia.
• Meeting further advanced India’s digital agenda, incorporating Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and digital inclusion into SCO cooperation framework.

Significance of SCO for India:

• Countering Terrorism: Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) provides access to key information and intelligence on movements of terrorists and drug-trafficking.
• Forum for Cooperation with Central Asian Countries: Provides India a platform to Help India in pursuing Connect Central Asia policy.
  • SCO also provides a forum for closer Indo-Russian cooperation.
• Energy Security: Region is home to 4% of world’s natural gas reserves and approximately 3% of oil reserves. 
• Balancing Chinese Dominance in Region: E.g. through Chabahar Port, INSTC etc.

Challenges of SCO: 

• Disputes among member countries; 
• Competition for dominance between China and Russia,
• Divergent interests of Member countries etc.;