New Delhi, November 18 (MTNews): The Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Rajeev Chandrasekhar today visited the Nagaland Pavilion at the India International Trade Fair (IITF) being held in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
Chandrasekhar on his visit took rounds of the different stalls that have been put up by various state departments, non-government organizations and artisans of the state, PIB reported.
The Minister also met Neihunuo Sorhie from Nagaland – a two-time recipient of the National Handloom Award and the Sant Kabir Award and commended her for making valuable contributions in keeping handloom heritage alive.
The Minister also visited the stall of Dream Dragon Fruit Farm – and met the young Naga lady entrepreneur Lucy Ngullie, who owns the farm and has forayed into production of organic dragon fruit wine.
It can be recalled that Rajeev Chandrasekhar has visited Nagaland twice in the past year to review developmental works in the state including Kiphire, an aspirational district. He had also inaugurated the National Institute of Electronics and Information and Technology (NIELIT) centre in Dimapur and also visited Zunheboto making it the first by a Union Minister to do so in a span of four decades.
“I have a long history with the North East going back to my childhood when my father served there,” PIB reported the Minister as saying.