Amit Shah to attend 72nd Plenary Session of Northeastern Council in Agartala next week

Guwahati: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will attend the 72nd Plenary Session of the Northeastern Council (NEC) in Agartala next week.

Development of Northeastern Region (DoNER) Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Governors and Chief Ministers of all eight northeastern states will attend the meeting.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, after reviewing the preparedness of the two-day event, said that on December 20, an official-level meeting would be held and on the next day, the main session would be held at Pragya Bhavan.


The Chief Minister said that Union Minister Shah would come to Agartala on December 20 to attend the NEC meeting the next day.

Governors, Chief Ministers, Deputy Chief Ministers, top officials of the Centre and eight NE states would attend the important NEC meeting, CM Saha told the media, adding that the progress of various ongoing and proposed development projects would be discussed in the two-day vital meeting.

He said that a review meeting of the works and planning of the Northeastern Space Application Centre (NESAC) would be held on December 22.

With its headquarters in Meghalaya's capital Shillong, the NEC, a regional planning and statutory advisory body for the eight northeastern states including Sikkim, was constituted under the Northeastern Council Act, 1971, and came into being on November 7, 1972.