Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday announced that every capital in Northeast India would be connected by rail, road, and air within the next two years. Addressing the Northeast Students’ and Youth Parliament organized by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), Shah said, ”The biggest achievement of the BJP government is that it has reduced the distance between the Northeast and the rest of India. By 2027, every capital of the Northeast will be connected by train, plane, and road.”
Shah highlighted a decline in insurgency-related violence in the region under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership. ”The number of violent incidents has decreased by 70 per cent from 11,000 between 2004 and 2014 to 3,428 between 2014 and 2024,” he claimed, adding that security force fatalities had dropped by 70 per cent and civilian deaths by 89 per cent in the past decade.
The Home Minister said that the BJP government has signed 12 important agreements in the past decade. “We have signed agreements with all armed groups and more than 10,500 insurgents have laid down their arms and joined the mainstream,” said Shah.
He said that in the past 10 years, PM Modi has taken care of the Northeast so much that he has decided that every month, one minister will stay overnight in some state of the Northeast.
“I want to tell you that the total number of visits of all the prime ministers to the Northeast since independence is 21, except Assam, and the number of visits of Narendra Modi alone to the Northeast is 78, which shows how much importance has been given to the Northeast,” Shah said.
The Home Minister revealed that a semiconductor plant worth Rs 2,700 crore is being set up in Assam, alongside a massive Rs 2.5 lakh crore investment in the Northeast.
He assured the youth that within the next 10 years, no child or youth from the region would need to leave for work elsewhere, as employment opportunities would be available within the Northeast.