NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought peace in the northeastern regions by signing 20 peace accords in the last 10 years of his tenure, which led 9,000 armed militants to surrender.
Shah said time has come for change in approach of the police to tackle and eliminate insurgency in the northeastern regions.
Addressing the 72nd plenary of the North Eastern Council (NEC) in Tripura, Shah further said that connectivity was no longer a problem in the region as the Centre “has spent Rs 81,000 crore for rail connectivity and Rs 41,000 crore for road network in the northeastern states.”
“The police fought insurgency in the northeast for the past four decades. As insurgency has now ended, we need to change the approach of the force to ensure people get justice within three years of lodging FIRs,” the Union home minister was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
Shah said northeast was always one of the key areas for the central government’s developmental works as Union ministers “spent 700 nights” in the states of the northeastern regions since coming to power in 2014.
“After the exchange of enclaves (land boundary agreements) with Bangladesh, the whole world will open for the northeast. This will change the investment ecosystem in the region,” he said.
The Unioh home minister also highlighted the efforts being put towards the upliftment of people in rural areas by promoting vegetable cultivation, milk, eggs and meat production.
“Only a hike in the GSDP (Gross State Domestic Product) is not enough for overall development. There is a need to attain self-sufficiency in vegetables, milk, eggs and meat,” he said.
He said that central government has been focusing on organic cultivation in the region
“The Centre has already constituted the National Organic Corporation Ltd to boost the sector. I urge all the CMs (in the northeast) to sign agreements with NOCL for packaging, marketing and exporting of organic products,” he said while also acknowledging that more efforts were needed to curb narcotics smuggling in the region.
The Union home minister inaugurated the 72nd plenary session of the North Eastern Council (NEC) at Prajna Bhavan in Agartala.
Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, along with governors, chief ministers of all the eight northeastern states, and senior officials, were also present at the event.
The council is the nodal agency for the economic and social development of the northeastern region, consisting of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.
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