Northeast to have connectivity projects worth ₹1.76 lakh crore by 2025: Amit Shah
The Hindu
Mr. Shah said the budgetary allocation under the Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North East Region (PM-DevINE) has been increased by 276%.
The northeast comprising eight States will have functional connectivity projects worth ₹1.76 lakh crore by 2025, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said at an official programme in Mizoram’s capital Aizawl on Saturday.
The most significant of these road, railway, and aviation projects is the Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport Project India has undertaken in Myanmar, he said after inaugurating and laying the foundation stones of 11 projects worth ₹2,500 crore in Mizoram.
The Kaladan project connects southern Mizoram to the Sittwe port in Myanmar.
Mr. Shah said the budgetary allocation under the Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North East Region (PM-DevINE) has been increased by 276%.
“Narendra Modi is the first Prime Minister in India who visited the northeast 53 times in the past nine years. The Central ministers visited the region a total of 432 times to take the development initiative forward,” he said.
One of the main reasons behind the development push has been the reign of peace in the region with some 8,000 extremists of different outfits giving up arms and signing accords, Mr. Shah said.
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