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New Delhi : The second meeting of the newly constituted ‘NITI Forum for North East’ will be held at Guwahati on December 4, 2018. Vice Chairman NITI Aayog Dr Rajiv Kumar will chair and Minister of State (IC) for DoNER, Dr Jitendra Singh will co-chair the meeting.

In February 2018, the ‘NITI Forum for North East’ was constituted to periodically review the development status in North Eastern Region. The NITI Forum for Northeast is tasked to identify various constraints in the way of accelerated, inclusive and sustainable economic growth in the North East Region of the country and to recommend suitable interventions for addressing identified constraints.

Members of the Forum include Secretaries of various Ministries of the Government of India, Chief Secretaries of all the eight North-eastern states and also senior government officials and experts from various fields. The Secretary, North East Council (NEC), is the Member Secretary of the Forum.

The Forum’s first meeting was held on April 10, 2018, at Agartala where wide ranging issues were discussed. It emerged that Infrastructure, Horticulture, Bamboo, Tourism, Food Processing, Education, Livelihoods, Health and Made in North Eastern Region were areas critical for the development of the region. Decisions taken at the meeting have since been carried forward by various Government Departments and other stakeholders.

Deliberations during the meeting will mainly focus on issues pertaining to five critical sectors – Tourism, Bamboo, Dairy, Fisheries and Tea. Besides the members of the Forum, a number of experts from Government, Industry and Academia have also been invited to make the discussions more meaningful, according to a PIB release.

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