SHILLONG, JAN 2: Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) minister Jitendra Singh said the government has to take care of the sensitivity, sensibility and the peculiar problems confronting the eight states of the north east.
Singh, who is also the chairman of North Eastern Council (NEC), was referring to the huge exodus of youths from the north east region to the other parts of the country.
“We have to try as best as possible to bring the north east and each of the north eastern states closer to the mainstream India both in term of development as well as culturally,” Singh told reporters at the sideline of the 63rd plenary of the NEC held on Friday.
He said he thinks one of the important priority is going to be empowerment of the youth by way of providing them employment and generating opportunity for employment for them and this could be achieve in a number of ways, one of which could be encouraging tourism over here, promoting tourism which would generate revenue and at the same time create job opportunities for the youngsters.
Stating there is huge exodus of youths taking place from north east, Singh said, “This also needs to be taken care of and prevented by providing them means of higher education and also job opportunity over here.”
With NEC known as a grant dispensary, Singh said, “We will try our best to fulfill the objectives for which the founding fathers of NEC had established it and certainly will try to have more and more involvement of the people including the civil society so that it should function according to the aspiration and priorities of the people.”
Asked what kind of mechanism will be adopted for the NEC with the planning commission getting over, Singh that one of the main objective of NEC is to coordinate and to bring closer interaction of the various states governments and their heads on the one hand and the union government on the other hand.
Singh added this is how both the union as well as the state government can contribute its bests for the common upliftment and development of the region.
Stating that the basic concept of NEC is empowerment of all, Singh said, “That is why the NEC itself inherently by constitutional composition comprises of all the eight chief ministers and governors as its members besides DoNER minister who acts as a coordinator between these eight CMs and Governors and Union and also to do the right kind of facilitation.”
According to Singh, if this objective was not fulfill to the extent may be there was some lapse on the part of the functionaries, the ministry will try to make up for that. He said, “I think the DoNeR minister has a major responsibility in ensuring that NEC works in the manner it is envisage to work. – By Our Reporter
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