DoNER Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia Announces Projects Worth Rs 400 Crores for Sikkim

DoNER Minister Scindia, who was on a two-day visit to Sikkim, met CM Prem Singh Tamang today and held meeting for two and half hour long

Working towards ‘Connected and Digital Assam’: DoNER Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia after hour long meeting with CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

The discussions centred around attracting more investment and avenues of growth development of the state. The issue of floods and the damages across the state were also discussed.

EIMC to monitor PM-DevINE projects in NorthEast India

Revised guidelines regarding project implementation have also been issued on Monday

Cente fully committed to develop tourism in NE: DoNER minister G Kishen Reddy

Centre working on multiple plans to boost Tourism in Northeast. 16 projects under Swadesh Darshan Scheme for NE worth Rs Rs 1,337.63 crore.

2-day Tourism and Culture ministers’ conference of Northeastern states begins in Guwahati

With an aim to revive the tourism sector in the Northeastern region which has been badly hit owing to the Covid-induced travel restrictions and lockdown, Assam is hosting a 2-day Northeast Tourism Conclave at Hotel Radisson Blu in Guwahati. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma along with G. Kishan Reddy, Union Minister of Tourism, Culture […]

AAI to launch Greenfield airport in Arunachal Pradesh’s Hollongi

The Airports Authority of India is set to inaugurate a Greenfield airport in Arunachal Pradesh’s Hollongi, the Union Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region informed on Saturday. The Greenfield airport project is expected to be completed by 2022 and will be able to fit in narrow-body jets like the Airbus A321 in the first […]

Five out of eight states in region coronavirus-free now, says Jitendra Singh

The DoNER Ministry said that five out of the eight states in the Northeast are corona-free now. He said that the five states are – Sikkim, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Tripura. The three states in the region – Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram – are not corona-free but there have been no new positive cases […]

Nagaland CM meets DoNER minister in New Delhi; discusses Kohima airport project

The DoNER ministry has plans to partially fund Rs 1,000 crores for the proposed Greenfield airport in Nagaland’s capital Kohima. This was conveyed by Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region Jitendra Singh to Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio who called on him in New Delhi on Wednesday along with a delegation of senior […]

Decision to repeal Article 370 in J&K will have no impact on Northeast, assures DoNER minister Jitendra Singh

Union Minister of State for the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region and Minister of State for Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Departments of Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh has downplayed the apprehensions that the decision of repealing Article 370 will have adverse affect on the North […]