Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that Northeast has emerged as New India’s greatest success story today. He said that in the last five years, the investments made towards the development of the region are nearly four times more than the funds allocated by the Congress government. In an interview with a Newspaper, Mr Modi said that the infrastructural development that had taken place in the last decade had connected the Northeastern region with the rest of the country. He said that the country’s first Sports University had been opened in Manipur and the government was setting up more than 200 Khelo India centres across the eight states.

On the issue of insurgency, the Prime Minister said that the government has significantly controlled insurgency in the northeast region and ensured peace. He said that a total of 11 peace agreements had been signed in the last ten years. Mr Modi said that more than nine thousand 500 insurgents had surrendered since 2014 and joined the mainstream of the society. The Prime Minister said that due to the improved security situation, the AFSPA had been withdrawn from most parts of the Northeast.