Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region

About Ministry

• The Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region is a Government of India ministry 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.
• 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.
• Main activities/functions of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region includes –
  1. Matters relating to the planning, execution and monitoring of developmental schemes and projects of North Eastern Region including those in the sectors of Power, Irrigation, Roads and Communications.
  2. Hill Area Development Programme in North Eastern Region.
  3. Non-lapsable Fund for the North Eastern Region.
  4. North Eastern Council.
  5. North East Development Finance Institution (NEDFI).
  6. North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation Limited (NERAMAC).
  7. The Sikkim Mining Corporation Limited.
  8. North Eastern Handloom and Handicrafts Development Corporation (NEHHDC), Shillong.
  9. Road works financed in whole or in part by the Central Government in the North Eastern Region.
  10. Planning of Road and Inland Waterways Transport in the North Eastern Region.

NORTH EAST RURAL LIVELIHOOD PROJECT (NERLP)

Objectives

• • Create sustainable community institutions around women Self-Help Groups (SHGs), Youth Groups of men and women (YG) and Community Development Groups (CDG).
  • Build capacity of community institutions for self-governance, bottom up planning, democratic functioning with transparency and accountability.
  • Increase economic and livelihood opportunities
  • Develop partnership of community institutions for natural resource management, microfinance, market linkages, and sectoral economic services.

Salient Features

• • It is being supported by World Bank.
  • The project will have three-pronged approach to livelihood strengthening for achieving sustainable development. These are: Social empowerment, Economic empowerment, Partnership and linkages.
  • It covers two districts each in Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and 5 districts in Tripura.

 

NORTH EAST SPECIAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (NESIDS)

Objectives

• • to fill up the gaps in creation of infrastructure in specified sectors till March, 2020.

Salient Features

• • It is Central Sector Scheme with 100 % funding from the Central Government.
  • It will broadly cover creation of infrastructure under following sectors;
    • Physical infrastructure relating to water supply, power, connectivity and specially the projects promoting tourism.
    • Infrastructure of social sectors of education and health.
  • The funds under the scheme, will be distributed among North Eastern States on the basis of well-defined criteria on certain parameters e.g. Area, Population, Human Development Index, Road density.
  • The NESIDS will be over and above the existing schemes of Government of India and State Governments of the NE Region. Only those projects would be considered for funding under the scheme which are not supported under any other scheme of Central or State Government.

 

NON-LAPSABLE CENTRAL POOL OF RESOURCES (NLCPR)

• • It is an accrual of the unspent balance of the mandatory 10 % budgetary allocation for the north-eastern region of the Ministry/Department.
  • It was created in 1997-98 with a funding pattern of 90:10 to
    • • • Ensure speedy development of NER by increasing the targeted flow of budgetary resources.
        • Finance social and physical infrastructure projects pertaining to subjects in the Union and concurrent list of the Constitution.
  • Under the NLCPR (State) Scheme, priority projects of North Eastern States are being funded and under NLCPR-Central Scheme, funds are provided to Central Ministries for implementing projects of national and regional importance.
  • Recently, a NLCPR- central funded 60 MW Tuirial Hydro Electric Project was dedicated to the nation in Mizoram which makes it the third power-surplus state in the northeast, after Sikkim and Tripura.
  • After coming to existence a new Central Sector Scheme in December, 2017 namely, “North East Special Infrastructure Development Scheme” (NESIDS) in place of NLCPR Scheme, no new project is taken up for funding under the NLCPR Scheme. However, funding for ongoing projects under the Scheme will be continued till March, 2020 for their completion.

 

NORTH EAST ROAD SECTOR DEVELOPMENT SCHEME

Objectives

• • to take up rehabilitation/construction/upgradation of neglected inter-state roads (including bridges on the roads) in the North Eastern Region.

Salient Features

• • Other criteria of roads to be constructed under the scheme are;
    • • Roads in socio-politically neglected pockets of NER;
      • Roads required for security or strategic viewpoint, not covered in any other programmes;
      • Roads necessary from the viewpoint of market access for agriculture produce and roads of economic importance on gap filling approach.
  • The Scheme will be administered and monitored in the Ministry of DoNER through an Empowered Inter-Ministerial Committee under chairmanship of Secretary, DoNER.

 

HILL AREA DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR NORTHEAST

Objectives

• • to minimise the gap between hill and valley district of states in terms infrastructure, quality of roads, health and education etc. with a serious research and

Salient Features

• • The scheme will benefit the hilly areas of Manipur, Tripura and Assam.
  • It is aimed at giving a focused attention to the lesser developed hilly areas and will be initiated on a pilot basis in the hilly districts of Manipur.
  • Special Central Assistance is given to designated hill areas in order to supplement the efforts of the State Governments in the development of these ecologically fragile areas.

 

NORTH EASTERN REGION COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROJECT (NERCORMP)

Objectives

• • To facilitate and provide and manage various resources and their requirement in north eastern states.

Salient Features

• • It was initially operated in three states and six districts viz: Assam (Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills), Manipur (Ukhrul and Senapati) and Meghalaya (West Garo Hills and West Khasi Hills).
  • It was further expanded to include districts of Changlang, Tirap, and Longding in Arunachal Pradesh and Chandel and Churachandpur in Manipur.
  • It is a joint developmental initiative of the North Eastern Council (NEC), Ministry of DoNER and International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD).
  • Major project activities: Capacity Building of Communities and Participating Agencies, Livelihood Activities, Extension and Technology Transfer, Credit, Social Sector Activities, Village Roads and Rural Electrification, Community Based Bio-diversity Conservation, Convergence with ongoing Government schemes, and Marketing Support.

 

DIGITAL NORTH EAST : VISION 2022

• • Launched under the Digital India programme it will be coordinated by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and will be implemented by various central government ministries and governments of north eastern states,
  • The document identifies eight digital thrust areas -digital infrastructure, digital services, digital empowerment, promotion of electronics manufacturing, promotion of IT and IT enabled services including BPOs, digital payments, innovation & startups, and cyber security.

 

 

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