What 15K Crore Road Projects Can Mean for NE?

By: Subhadeep Bhattacharjee

North Eastern states of Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Sikkim and Manipur are at the bottom of the table as far as road density (kilometre per square kilometre) is concerned. The story isn’t anything to cheer about it even in the case of states such as Nagaland, Assam and Tripura where figures are better than the national average. Major share of the road in these states aren’t surfaced making them unusable during the monsoons. It is often said that development rides on communication and connectivity, and poor infrastructure has been one of the main reasons behind the sorry state of affairs in the region. It has led to underdevelopment which has sown the seeds for ethnic conflicts. These problems together with militancy have further dented the prospects of development and job creation in the region. Limited investments by a few entrepreneurs have earned little dividends and even these continue to dry up leading to huge brain drain to other parts of the country.....Read More

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Four Major NE Projects on Anvil

North East is one of the most underdeveloped regions in the country. Plagued by poor infrastructure and connectivity the region has failed to keep pace with other parts of the country in terms of growth and socio-economic development. The lack of infrastructure has fostered under development and growth of insurgency in the region. Many power and infrastructure projects are currently underway in different parts of the region that would solve some of the perennial problems of different states. Here we shall take a sneak peek into four major power and infrastructure projects in the region that have the potential to usher in a new era of connectivity, growth and overall development of the region...Read More

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