The Rising Northeast Summit 2025 marks a pivotal turning point in India’s regional development narrative. With lakhs of crores of rupees in investment pledges from industry titans like Reliance, Adani, and Vedanta, as well as the government, the Northeast is finally being positioned not as a remote outpost, but as India’s strategic bridge to Southeast Asia. At least that is how it is being projected now. Prime Minister Modi’s oft stated vision to transform the region into a trade, technology, and energy corridor is both ambitious and overdue.

This renewed national attention has generated excitement and rightly so. Investments in compressed biogas, renewable energy, healthcare, telecom, and vocational training can uplift millions, generate employment, and unlock the region’s long-underutilized potential.

However, there is an urgent need to ensure that this rising tide lifts all boats, not just those anchored in state capitals or resource-rich districts. Equitable development must be the cornerstone of this transformation. Without deliberate, inclusive planning, we risk replicating the very patterns of neglect this summit seeks to correct. If only a few states or urban pockets benefit while others remain stranded in neglect, it would defeat the very idea of equitable development.

Remote districts like Mokokchung in Nagaland must be integrated into these new industrial and infrastructural corridors. But integration won’t happen by default. It requires targeted interventions: road and digital connectivity that reaches the last mile, incentives for decentralized manufacturing, skilling programs tailored to local strengths, and grassroots entrepreneurship support.

Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio rightly highlighted the value of the region’s artisan economy and the need for standardization and global competitiveness. But what must remote districts like Mokokchung do to align themselves with the rising sectors so that they are not merely onlookers, but active participants in the economic surge? What must they do to ensure their youth are job-ready and actively participate in shaping incoming investments?

For true transformation, infrastructure must penetrate not just capitals and commercial hubs but interiors. Startups and MSMEs from the remote hills must find a place in the value chains of corporate giants. And most importantly, transparency in project implementation and community ownership must be guaranteed. If executed with balance and foresight, it can reshape the Northeast as a model of inclusive growth. But if it bypasses its remotest communities, it will only widen the old divides in new forms.

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