Swarajya's video: Development Of Northeast India Through National Waterways Bangladesh

The past eight years have seen a number of road infrastructure and connectivity projects being initiated in the North East in keeping with the Narendra Modi government’s ‘Act East’ policy. Some of the projects have been completed, and the rest are nearing completion, mostly at a pace that has surprised people of the region who had gotten used to apathy and neglect from successive governments at the Centre. All these projects are aimed at effectively dispelling the false notion —perpetrated by successive Union governments — that the North East, being a land-locked region, is destined to a development deficit. But what is now adding muscle to the exercise is the Modi government’s challenge to the very concept that the North East is a land-locked region. “The entire region is blessed with many rivers that flow to Bangladesh and then on to the Bay of Bengal. Prime Minister Modi has enunciated this revolutionary concept of converting these rivers into waterways for movement of freight and passengers within the region and also between the North East and the rest of the country through Bangladesh,” Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonowal told Swarajya. Sonowal, who is in Dibrugarh (Upper Assam) to attend a two-day-long multi-nation Waterways Conclave that commenced on 11 April said: “This conclave will explore ways for optimum utilisation of waterways and will set the ball rolling for a master plan in this regard. We’re also looking at a technical tie-up with the Netherlands, which has sent delegates to this conference, on river water management." Subscribe to Swarajya on YouTube. Get a Swarajya subscription: https://subscriptions.swarajyamag.com/join-us Website: https://swarajyamag.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SwarajyaMag Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/swarajyamag