NE will be the Torch Bearer of New India: Jitendra Singh

New Delhi: The Minister of State for the Development of North East Region (DoNER) Jitendra Singh said that the North Eastern states would become the torch bearer of New India as the country prepares to celebrate the 75th year of its Independence in 2022.

Addressing a seminar organised by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), the minister said that in the post-COIVID era, India’s economic resurgence would not be complete unless it took care of the vast unexplored potential and resources of the North Eastern region.

The Union minister said that it was PM Narendra Modi who gave the vision ‘Act East’ soon after assuming power in 2014, thus imparting a new push to the approach and focus to relations with the neighbouring countries, which was earlier known as the Look East Policy.