The North Eastern States Roads Program, launched in 2011, aims to build 433 km long roads in six northeastern states.
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The Northeastern states are Manipur, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura and Sikkim.
Around 36 lakh people are benefited from the project, which will be completed by August 2022.
North East requires special consideration as contrasted to the rest of India. One such case is that Assam is the world largest tea producer, but it lags behind industrialisation.
North Eastern citizens feel alienated from the rest of the country because of a lack of modern Infrastructure, less exposure, POVERTY-and-Unemployment“>Poverty and Unemployment.
For the preceding reasons, it is necessary to increase the connectivity in the region, which is needed to control the insurgency.
The North Eastern Council focuses on building 10,500 km in the region. Under the NEC, a new scheme called North East Road sector development was launched. It mainly focuses on Arunachal Pradesh.