Friday, June 10, 2011

NEC to hold 60th Plenary Meeting on 16 and 17 June

GANGTOK, 09 June: The 60th NEC Council Meeting is slated to be held on 16 and 17 June in New Delhi and is scheduled to be attended by Chief Ministers, Governors, Chief Secretaries of all the North Eastern States. Various topics for over all development of North East including Power scenario, Education, Science & Technology, Railways, Air connectivity, Innovation for the North Eastern  Region, Transport and Communication in the States, Agriculture, Sports etc, will be touched upon, informs a press communiqué received from the Director, HRD&E, North Eastern Council Secretariat, Shillong.

Special presentations will be made by the Ministry of Power on the Action Plan prepared for the NE Region based on the Vision NER 2020; Draft Master Plan prepared by the NEC on Tourism in the North Eastern Region (prepared by Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.); State Government of Mizoram on the Report prepared on Education Sector in the State; Sam Pitroda, Advisor to Prime Minister and Chairman, National Innovation Council on the Innovation for the North Eastern Region; Mission Director, Mission on Geo Spatial Applications, Ministry of Science and Technology on “GIS mapping of social infrastructure in Nagaland and Manipur using 3D terrain models”; Ministry of Railways on the Action Plan prepared for North Eastern Region on the basis of NER Vision 2020 and discussion thereon.
Presentation of awards to the winners of the recently constituted North Eastern Council Chairman’s Sports Award for Excellence will be held. Gold Medalist in the recently held International events such as Common Wealth and Asian Games are being given Rs. 10 lakhs for Gold Medal; Rs. 5 lakhs for Silver and Rs. 3 lakhs for Bronze each.
As a body for planning and execution for over all development of the North East States, the meet is to be chaired by the DoNER Minister, Chairman NEC, BK Handique.
The meeting will dwell on various developmental activities already undertaken and future course of action to be embarked upon.
To uplift and supports the meritorious under privilege at students of the North East 23 students. (3 each from the seven states and 2 from Sikkim) are being sponsored from this year onwards at the Assam Riffle Public School, Laitkor, Shillong.

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