Workshop organized as a part of the Golden Jubilee Celebration of NEC

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• Jan 20, 2023 | Kabir Chakraborty

In this address, he stressed the need to prioritize the focus areas while also highlighting the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the northeast region. 

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workshop on ‘Role of North Eastern Council in the Development of North East
India and the way forward’ was organized by the Higher Education Department,
Govt of Assam in association with Cotton University at the Varsity premise
today.

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mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Anjan Gogoi, Retd Air
Marshal and Member of NEC, graced the event as the guest of honour. In this
address, he stressed the need to prioritize the focus areas while also
highlighting the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the
northeast region. He also stressed the necessity to work towards achieving
the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

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mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">K Moses Chalai, IAS,
Secretary, NEC, in his address highlighted the works and achievements of the
NEC in the northeast region in general and Assam in particular and the future
goals.

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mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Also present at the
inaugural event were Prof Ramesh Chandra Deka, Vice Chancellor, Cotton
University, Narayan Konwar, IAS, Secy to the Govt of Assam, Dept of Higher
Education, Rouhin Deb, Chief Economist, Chief Minister’s Secretariat, Govt of
Assam and Kelvin Kharsing, Planning Advisor, NEC.

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mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">The inaugural event was
followed by a panel discussion which was moderated by Dr Mousumi Borah, Dean,
Academics, Arya Vidyapeeth College; Rouhin Deb, Chief Economist, Chief
Minister’s Secretariat, Govt of Assam, Prof Kuldeep Baishya, Faculty of
Marketing, IIT, Guwahati and Prof Joydeep Baruah, School of Social Sciences,
KKHSOU participated in the panel discussion as resource persons. The resource
persons shared their expertise on the thrust areas for sustainable development
of the northeast region and shared their suggestions on the avenues that could
be explored as a way forward.

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mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">The programme ended with a
vote of thanks delivered by D.J Borkotoki, Addl. Secretary, Dept. of
Transformation & Development, Government of Assam. The day-long event was
organized as a part of the Golden Jubilee Celebration of the North Eastern
Council (NEC) that was officially kicked off on the 18th of December, 2022 at
Shillong, Meghalaya and was graced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union
Home Minister Amit Shah.

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