Psychological outreach important for development of North East: Jitendra
20/03/2018
NEW DELHI, Mar 19: The Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (I/C), Prime Minister's Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurated the two-day international seminar on “The Age of Multilaterlism and Connecting India's North East: Opportunities and Challenges” here today. The seminar is being jointly organized by the Ministry for Development of Northeast (DoNER), the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) and Asian Confluence (A Unit of Divya Jeevan Found ation), Shillong, Meghal aya March 19 & 20, 2018.
Addressing the seminar, Dr Jitendra Singh said that North East has unexplored potentials and the region is on the priority of the Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said that psychological outreach towards development of North East region is as important as physical outreach. The fast-track thrust by the Union Government in the last 3 years, Dr Jitendra Singh said, has resulted in a sea-change by improving the connectivity scenario, both in air, rail and road connectivity, and this is bound to overcome many of the earlier constraints faced by the potential entrepreneurs. With the Union Government's emphasis on "Act East" policy, he said, this is a great opportunity to explore the new possibilities of growth production for international trade in the region. He also said that the keeping in view the scenic beauty of the Arunachal Pradesh a second Film and Training Institute of India (FTII) will be set up in Itanagar, the first being in Pune, Maharashtra. He also said that region-based road development scheme for NE region namely "North-East Road Sector Development Scheme" (NERSDS) has also been started for maintenance, construction and upgradation of such roads, which remain neglected because of being interconnecting roads between two States as a result of which they remain un-owned and had thus gained the dubious distinction of being described as "orphan roads".
He said that the Ministry for Development of Northeast (DoNER) is encouraging investments, both through the Govern ment agencies as well as private parties. In this regard, he cited the example of huge collaboration with the Government of Japan, which is planning a heavy investment in the region as well as Singa pore which has offered to set up a Skill Center in Assam.
The Director General of Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), Nalin Surie and The Director, Asian Confluence, Sabyasachi Dutta were present on the occasion.
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