Indian Government has been working relentlessly to establish peace and stability, enhance connectivity in the NE region, and have attained considerable success as well says Minister for Development of North Eastern Region, Tourism, Culture  G. Kishan Reddy while addressing the North Eastern Council (NEC)’s  70^th Plenary meeting held in Guwahati. 

All stakeholders, Centre, States, and private sector need to work jointly and focus on further enhancing infrastructure and connectivity in the region, he advised.

The DoNER Minister also suggested that there is a need to conduct a “strengths and weaknesses analysis” and “identify gaps in key sectors”. This would help in more targeted developmental initiatives. He further added that while selecting project factors such as NER district-wise SDG index, aspirational districts, connectivity to rural habitations and areas and level of poverty indices should be taken into consideration. He also urged the officials to ensure good tendering norms and robust monitoring.

Reflecting on the tourism potential of the region, the minister informed that the Ministry of DoNER is constituting a Tourism Task Force to ensure realisation of the complete potential of the region. He said that developing tourism infrastructure, skilling, and capacity building are the core priorities for developing Tourism in the region.

The Minister said that a Global Investors Summit for NER should be organized soon and all State Governments should start undertaking measures for developing an investor friendly ecosystem. Various measures such as changing the policies to suit the needs of investors, digitizing land banks, having plot level information, simplifying processes, providing a single window clearance system, developing an inventory of readily investible projects, establishing an investors’ facilitation centre in each State, investing on supporting infrastructure like approach roads, power connectivity, water supply etc, must be undertaken, he added

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