North East Watch

Imphal, September 29, 2009: Rampant fraud and discrepancies have marred all infrastructure development initiatives at Tamei sub-divisional headquarters.

Kohima | September 23, 2009: A two day long reflective workshop on ‘Vision of Cooperatives, Team Building and Leadership’ got underway here today at the Jubilee Memorial Hall. Addressing the workshop, Azheto Zhimomi, Advisor for Cooperation & Sericulture, said it is now a time to usher in a revolution towards cooperative development.

Agartala, Sep 13, 2009: The Tripura government has expressed satisfaction over the joint statement of External Affairs Ministers of both India and Bangladesh while stating that it would improve the state’s economic development.

Imphal, September 11, 2009: Based on the recommendations made during the development seminars held at Bishnupur and Senapati under the sponsorship of DoNER Ministry, an action plan for development has been formulated.

Imphal, September 10, 2009: The Village Development Forum, Chandel district (VDFC) has expressed its gratitude to World Vision India, Imphal ADP for its assistance to the farmers in addressing the drought situation in Chandel district by way of providing 5 water pumps through the Forum on September 8.

IMPHAL, June 2, 2009 – Bangladesh is likely to interfere in the construction of the controversial 1,500 MW Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydel Project in Manipur with the former deciding to send an all-party parliamentary committee to visit the dam site, according to well-placed sources.

NEW DELHI, May 29, 2009 – A meeting of the Chief Ministers of North Eastern States is being convened to sort out the problem of fund crunch being faced by the States in implementation of developmental schemes. Union Minister for Development of Northern Eastern Region (DoNER) and Mines, Bijoy Krishna Handique said this here today.

DIMAPUR, May 29, 2009 – A joint team of officials of World Bank, IFAD and NEC was in Nagaland for a familiarization trip recently.

GORESWAR, March 10, 2009 –With a view to supply irrigated water in the crop fields of the poor farmers of Baksa and northern part of Kamrup districts, the foundation stone of a flow irrigation scheme (FIS) worth Rs 10.86 crore under the Accelerated Irrigation Beneficient Project (AIBP) for channel Mala Dong was laid by Biswajit [...]

Gangtok, Feb 26, 2009: The Minister of Development of North Eastern Region and Panchayati Raj, Mani Shankar Aiyar informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply to a question on Thursday that the North Eastern Region Vision 2020 document, laid on the Table of the House on 23.10.2008 outlines the goals, identifies the challenges and [...]