North East India has seen many insurgencies post Independence across the region. Multiple governments have tried their best to coax them to shun violence and come to the mainstream. The money and energy pumped in to control the insurgencies are a heavy price the people of India have paid for making the region peaceful. 

Multiple ceasefire agreements have taken place with monetary benefits to the cadres to bring them to the mainstream. Though the process is a tedious one and consumes a lot of time in terms of years of negotiation, it equally gives encouragement to splinter groups to come up with arms and later get some settlement offers. The trend is a dangerous one that the government must be factored in to understand the return on investment.

A parallel social reengineering process that could give a more valued outcome is to take the path of education. If we can bombard the northeastern region with NE India through a special Educational package, we can achieve a more impact on the ground. Most of the government schools are ill-equipped in terms of infrastructure and teachers.

One of the biggest challenges the education sector is facing is the teachers’ duty hours in remote areas as well as their commitment levels. Many teachers are using proxy teachers or missing duties regularly and it induces a low commitment level in those also who really want to serve the system. There are very low commitment levels of school teachers in Government schools.

In the last 75 years of Independence, we have not been able to unite the NE region through military actions but maybe we can undertake a social reengineering process of bombarding the region with education.