The budgetary allocation for the eight North Eastern states has been hiked by four times after the Narendra Modi-led Government came to power in 2014. This was stated by Union Minister of Communication and Development of North East Region (DoNER) Jyotiraditya Scindia, while briefing the media after a review meeting on the developmental works in Tripura today. He alleged that during the Congress- led UPA rule the budgetary allocation was a meagre 24,000 crore rupees for a year, which has been increased to One Lakh three crore rupees.

The Minister said that the Central Government is actively working and extending support to the state government of Dr Manik Saha in Tripura for bringing a surge in the development of Tripura.

Applauding the works of the state government, he said the state is witnessing speedy development, due to which the state has pegged GSDP of 90,000 crore rupees and the growth rate has gone up at 9%. Similarly, per capita income has increased to a newer encouraging height.

He said for the entire North East region including Tripura, the Centre is pushing for investment road roadshows, which are going on in major cities like Bengaluru, and Hyderabad and are planned for holding in Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata amongst others for attracting investment to industrial development in the region. He further said that in the last 10 years alone 5,500 kms of national highways have been built in the region. Similarly, the grant-in-aid has also been increased to the North East region to Rs. 62,000 crore rupees.

The review meeting was attended by Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha, state Agriculture Minister Ratan Lal Nath, state Transport Minister Sushanta Chowdhury and State Tribal Affairs Minister, Bikash Debbarma.