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NATION | PM Modi’s Northeast visit

Northeast The driver of the

Viksit Bharat ambition

After years of apathy Northeast
today is on the path to fast
development shaping India’s

aspirations to emerge a
developed nation. After the
year 2014, this region has been

steering India’s development
towards its journey of Viksit
Bharat. This has been made
possible because of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi’s policy

of ‘Act East’ along with several
other steps undertaken for
prosperity of the region including

visionary policy making, record
investment and special ministry
and coordinated efforts. This
glimpse of PM Modi’s sensitivity
towards the Northeast was also

seen on his two-day visit on 13-
14 September, where he gave
development gifts worth more

than Rs 36 thousand crore to
Mizoram, Manipur and Assam…

fter independence, big cities of the western region to fast development. From 10 new Green-
and southern parts of the country developed field airports in 11 years, more than 16 thousand
Afast, dreams flourished there, and the youth km of national highways to the first railway line in
got new opportunities. Now this phase of the 21st Mizoram… the Northeast is going through a new
century belongs to the East and Northeast, where transformation period. Northeast moving forward
not only dreams are coming true, but new avenues with the vision of new India also featured chiefly in
of progress have been opened by connecting the the address of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. While

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