Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday emphasized the transformative changes in India’s North Eastern region over the last decade, asserting that peace has been restored in the region in the last ten years and the focus must now shift to building an industrial ecosystem.
The south Asian nation has witnessed massive protest demonstrations since last month. In the middle of July, nearly 200 protesters, including students, died in the violence, which was allegedly instigated by police personnel and a large number of supporters of Hasina’s party, the Awami League.
The Ministry has sanctioned the construction of 42 roads spanning 118.756 km in Tripura, with an estimated investment of Rs. 114.32 crore. This initiative aims to provide all-weather road connectivity to 47 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) habitations.
In the meeting, the discussion centred on strategies for capacity building, training policies, marketing and promotion efforts for the development of tourism in NE states.
Among the contenders, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju stands as a formidable force, vying for the Arunachal West seat.
Once known for separatist militants’ disruptive activities, the region has emerged as a land of peaceful electorate with full commitment to the electoral process.
Rising economic aspirations and loopholes in policies have shown the way for forming such networks of illegal and unguarded extraction of resources, threatening its natural ecosystem.
The substantial presence of ethnic Nepalese people in North-east India is an asset to promote greater economic interaction with the neighbouring country Nepal.
Any attempt to converge national vision with people's voices in this contested region must be negotiated carefully
The faint hopes that an overdue political debate on the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) was in the offing ~ generated by its partial relaxation in nine districts of Arunachal Pradesh ~ have been dashed.
