Northeast has become a front runner of India’s growth, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that the Northeast region is a growth engine of India and it progressed a lot during the past 11 years and has become a front runner.

Inaugurating the ambitious 51.38-km Bairabi-Sairang railway project, flagging off three new trains connecting Aizawl with Delhi, Kolkata and Guwahati and laying the foundation stone and inaugurating multiple



development projects worth over Rs 9,000 crore, the Prime Minister said that the Northeast was earlier called frontier state, now the region has become a front runner.

He said that through the Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport Project, Mizoram and other Northeastern states of India would be connected with the Bay of Bengal. “The region would further come closer to Southeast Asian countries.”