SHILLONG, Jun 4 : Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Jyotiraditya M. Scindia on Thursday said the eight North Eastern states will form the central core of Viksit Bharat by 2047, following the roadmap laid out by Home Minister Amit Shah.
Talking to reporters after the 73rd plenary session of the North Eastern Council (NEC), Scindia said that Home Minister Shah had set the roadmap for the NEC and the eight states for the next 12 months.
Shah, who is also chairman of the NEC, chaired the plenary meeting in the presence of Governors and Chief Ministers of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, and Tripura, and senior government officials.
The Home Minister also reviewed the ongoing developmental projects and finalised development priorities for the North Eastern states for 2026-27.
Under the Prime Minister’s leadership, Scindia said the eight states are going from strength to strength.
“They (North Eastern States) will become the Ashta Lakshmi of India as we advance towards Viksit Bharat 2027,” he said.
Crediting Prime Minister Narendra Modi for driving growth in the region, the union DoNER Minister said, “The leaps of progress that the North East had undertaken under Prime Minister’s visionary vision has actually led to huge economic growth across the length and breadth of the North East.”
“By 2047 as Bharat becomes a Viksit nation, the North East will become a very central core of that Viksit Bharat 2047,” he said.
(UNI )
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