AGARTALA, May 29 (TIWN): Tripura CM to attend North Eastern Council meeting on Monday at New Delhi.

The North Eastern Council is the nodal agency for the economic and social development of the North Eastern Region which consists of the eight States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.

DoNER Minister, Arun Jetly ,Rajnath Singh will also remain present in the meeting.All NE states CM along with Govornor will also present.

The North Eastern Council was constituted in 1971 by an Act of Parliament.The constitution of the Council  has marked the beginning of a new chapter of concerted and planned endeavour for the rapid development of the Region.

 Over the last thirty five years, NEC has been instrumental in setting in motion a new economic endeavour aimed at removing the basic handicaps that stood in the way of normal development of the region and has ushered in an era of new hope  in this backward area full of great potentialities