NE is at centre of India's growth story: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday gave a clarion call to India Inc. to reap the first mover advantage for investing in the north-east states as the region has been transformed, in the last II years, from a backward "frontier region to a growth front-runner.

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Addressing the Rising North East Investors Summit in the national capital, Modi said the government's policy had accorded priority in development to the northeast, as a result of which the region has now come to the centre stage of India's growth story.

He highlighted that as part of this policy, Union Cabinet ministers had visited the northeast states more than 700 times, and he also had made a night stay mandatory for them during their visit.

"This enabled the Centre to get a first-hand feel of the ground reality and the aspirations of the people in drawing up the strategy for development," he explained.