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Rising North East: Why the
Northeast Holds the Keys to a $30
Trillion Economy
Tripura's pride traveling across
continents. The story isn't only
about pineapples. This is about
a region, rising and awakening!
Because of Hon’ble Prime
Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji’s
leadership, the Northeastern
Region (NER) once relegated
to the corners of the Indian
Jyotiraditya M. Scindia Development paradigm is
Union Minister shedding its peripheral skin to
Ministry of Communications & emerge as the nation's eastern
Ministry of Development of North gateway. From trade routes
of ancient Kamrup, where the
Eastern Region
Arthashastra praised Suvarna
Hudyaka (the gold-threaded
silk ‘red as the sun’), to today's
semiconductor fabs promising
In the bustling markets silicon dreams, the region is
of Dubai, people reach for rewriting its own destiny. In
a strange treat: the golden India's pursuit of becoming a
Queen pineapple from Tripura. $30 trillion economy and Viksit
Its sweetness brings to mind Bharat by 2047, few regions
monsoon-kissed hills and tribal will be as consequential as this
wisdom passed down through awakening giant.
the years. Eleven years ago, Eleven years ago, when Shri
who would have thought that Narendra Modi Ji was sworn
this fruit from a remote part in as the Prime Minister, India
of India would be served at accelerated and the Northeast
Middle Eastern tables? But here resurged. The PM provided a
we are: Close to 10,000 tons of new lens and declared the
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