Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region

The Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region is a Government of India ministry, established in September 2001, which functions as the nodal Department of the Central Government to deal with matters related to the socio-economic development of the eight States of Northeast India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim.[2] It acts as a facilitator between the Central Ministries/ Departments and the State Governments of the North Eastern Region in the economic development including removal of infrastructural bottlenecks, provision of basic minimum services, creating an environment for private investment and to remove impediments to lasting peace and security in the North Eastern Region.

Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
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Agency overview
FormedSeptember, 2001
JurisdictionRepublic of India
HeadquartersVigyan Bhavan Annexe, Maulana Azad Road, New Delhi -110 011.
Annual budget₹3,000 crore (US$420 million) (2018-19 est.)[1]
Minister responsible
Websitemdoner.gov.in

The current, Minister of Development of North Eastern Region is Jitendra Singh (Minister of state, Independent Charge).[3]

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The Department of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) was created in 2001 and was accorded the status of a full-fledged ministry on May 2004. The ministry is mainly concerned with the creation of infrastructure for economic development of North-Eastern region.

Main activities/functions of the DoNER.

  • Non Lapsible Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR)[4] Coordination with the Central Ministries and the State Governments of the NE states.
  • Capacity Building
  • Advocacy and Publicity
  • International Cooperation
  • Enterprises of the Department

Organisations

The ministry has following organisations functioning under it:[5]

  • North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd.(NEDFi)
  • North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation Limited (NERAMAC)
  • The Sikkim Mining Corporation Limited. (SMC)
  • North Eastern Handlooms and Handicrafts Development Corporation (NEHHDC)

Ministers
№ Name Term of office Political party
(Alliance)		 Prime Minister Reference
1 C. P. Thakur 29 January 2003 23 May 2004 BJP
NDA		 Atal Bihari Vajpayee [6]
2 P. R. Kyndiah 23 May 2004 24 October 2006 Congress
UPA		 Manmohan Singh
3 Mani Shankar Aiyar 24 October 2006 22 May 2009
4 Bijoy Krishna Handique 31 May 2009 19 July 2011 [7]
5 Paban Singh Ghatowar
(MoS, Independent Charge)		 19 July 2011 26 May 2014
6 Gen. V. K. Singh
(MoS, Independent Charge)		 26 May 2014 9 November 2014 BJP
NDA		 Narendra Modi [8]
7 Jitendra Singh
(MoS, Independent Charge)		 9 November 2014 Incumbent

Northeast India connectivity projects

See also: Look-East Connectivity

Commerce with South and East Asian nations accounts for almost 45% of India's foreign trade.[9][10] Myanmar and ASEAN nations are part of India's Look East policy.[11][12][13] India is part of ASEAN+6, Asia Cooperation Dialogue, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Asian Clearing Union, Asian Development Bank, Bangladesh Bhutan India Nepal Initiative, BIMSTEC, East Asia Summit, Mekong-Ganga Cooperation, SAARC, South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Asian Highway Network and the Trans-Asian Railway network.[14][15]

Major initiatives covered are Transport between India and Bangladesh, Bangladesh–India border, India-Myanmar barrier, Bhutan–India border, McMahon Line, etc.

Bridges

Roads

International roads

NE has 5,000 km border with Nepal, Bhutan, China, Bangladesh and Myanmar while being isolated and connected to rest of India by 20 km narrow chicken-neck Siliguri Corridor.[16]

Strategic National Highways (NH)

13,500 km were NH out of total 3,76,819 km of road length in NE (March 2012).[16]

  • Schemes: Bharatmala and NH[17]
    • Non Lapsable Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR) plan[18] for NE and Look East connectivity.
    • Special Accelerated Road Development Programme in North East (SARDP-NE) plan for the China border roads.[18]
  • Funding:
    • Total approved (A+B): ₹626,000 million (equivalent to ₹710 billion or US$9.9 billion in 2019) (till Dec 2017).[19][20]
    • A. ₹326,000 million (equivalent to ₹370 billion or US$5.2 billion in 2019) 3,840 km approved and ₹135,000 million (equivalent to ₹150 billion or US$2.1 billion in 2019) 1,266 km completed (2014 to Dec 2017).[19][20][21]
      • ₹53,000 million (equivalent to ₹60 billion or US$840 million in 2019) additional funding released to ensure completion by March 2023 of current NE NH projects by plugging the gap, on 100% centre-funding basis, instead of usual 90:10 centre-state funding mechanism (Dec 2017).[20]
    • B. ₹300,000 million (equivalent to ₹340 billion or US$4.7 billion in 2019) additional approved under Bharatmala for NE NH (Dec 2017).[19][20]
  • Routes:
    Major NE NH route map and SARDP Arunachal roads map.
  • Highways:

Other roads
  • North Eastern Council inter-state projects and roads:[33]
    • 47 new inter-state roads of 1,666 km costing ₹50,000 million (equivalent to ₹56 billion or US$790 million in 2019), of which 4 were taken within plan ending March 2017.[16]
    • 2014 to Dec 2017:[19][20]
      • ₹23,090 million (equivalent to ₹26 billion or US$370 million in 2019) projects executed,
      • ₹5,790 million (equivalent to ₹6.5 billion or US$92 million in 2019) to ₹9,690 million (equivalent to ₹11 billion or US$150 million in 2019) rise in the annual budget.
      • 56 to 138 increase in the number of projects, incl. Bramputra Study Centre established to research river ecosystem.
  • PMGSY roads in NE, including border village roads].[34] Relaxation to be given to the minimum 250 people habitation in case of villages within 50 km of border.[16]

Railway
    • Sivok-Rangpo line, 44 km long, to Gangtok in Sikkim.[39]
    • Teteliya-Byrnihat line, 22 km long, from Guwahati's suburb Tetelia to Byrnihat near Shillon in Meghalaya is likely to be completed by March 2022.[39]
    • Dimapur-Kohima line, 82 km long, to Kohima In Nagaland is expected to be completed by March 2023.[39]
    • Jiribam-Imphal line, 111 km long, to Imphal is likely to be completed by March 2022.[39]
    • Bhairabi-Sairang line, 51 km long, to Aizawl in Mizoram is likely to be completed by March 2023.[39]

Air

Airports development

NER Airports.[40] Indian government was upgrading 12 non-operational airports into operational airports in NE (May 2017, worked started in 8 airports in 2014).[41][42] LGBIA Guwahati will operate as the inter-regional hub and Agartala Airport, Dibrugarh Airport and Imphal Airport will operate as intra-regional hubs by extending runways and apron, and by building terminal building and maintenance hangars at these airports.[42] 3 new greeenfield under-construction airports are Itanagar Holangi Airport, Pakyong Airport-Operationalized (Sikkim) and Chiethu Airport (Nagaland).[42]

Airports development phase-I (fy2016-17 to fy2019-20)

Airports Authority of India (AAI) will spend ₹25,000 million (equivalent to ₹28 billion, US$400 million or €360 million in 2019) between 2018-2020, including the following will be completed by 2019-20 (c. Dec 2017):[43][44]

Airports development phase-II (fy2018-19 to -)

Centre govt will invest further ₹80,000 million (equivalent to ₹90 billion, US$1.3 billion or €1.2 billion in 2019) to develop more NR airports.[44] Several advanced landing ground heliports will be upgraded from to the dual army-civilian airports.[44] Likely includes the following:[46][41][42]

Flights

Among Airports in Northeast India, following were connected under UDAN

UDAN flights

UDAN Phase-I flights started at Shillong Airport, Dimapur Airport, Imphal International Airport, Silchar Airport, Lengpui Aizawl Airport and Agartala Airport.[44]

UDAN Phase-II flights started at TBA?

Other flights

2014-2017 NEC plan proposes to work towards starting the following flights:[16]

Waterways

International NE waterways

Inland National waterways in NE

Power

As of December 2017, ₹98,650 million (equivalent to ₹110 billion, US$1.6 billion or €1.4 billion in 2019) power transmission grid project approved in 2014 is being implemented of which 2,540 km lines already laid, and 16 hydro power projects of 5676 MW being implemented and additional 694 MW projects already implemented.[19][20]

Tourism

Projects include approval of ₹2,070 million (equivalent to ₹2.3 billion, US$33 million or €30 million in 2019) in 2016 to prevent erosion of world's largest riverine island of Majuli, development of Spiritual Circuit in Manipur, Tourist Circuit in Sikkim, Tribal Circuit in Nagaland and Umiam Lake in meghalaya (Dec 2017 update).[19][20]

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