Financial Discipline By NE States Essential To Make India Second Largest Economy: Shah

Financial discipline by the northeastern states is essential to contribute to making the Indian economy the second largest in the world, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday.

While speaking at the 70th plenary meeting of the North Eastern Council in Assam, Shah said that the Indian economy is currently ranked fifth in the world and financial discipline by the Northeastern states is necessary to contribute to making it second in the world. 

Highlighting the importance of natural farming and digital farming, Shah said that natural farming and digital farming are a matter of priority for the government and the process of forming a multi-state cooperative society by merging Amul and five other cooperatives for certification of natural products is also started. 

He said that after the certification of these products, this cooperative society will also ensure their export so that the profit will go directly to the bank accounts of the farmers. 

Shah said that more than 500 laboratories across the country will certify the quality of soil and natural products.

Shah urged people to keep the northeastern states free from the use of single-use plastic for environmental protection.

Without taking any name, Shah said that there were major hurdles in the path of development of the Northeast for decades.

"Violence and unrest by extremist groups, lack of rail, road and air connectivity in the northeast and absence of thrust on development of northeast by previous governments," he said.

Shah added that the development of the northeast was never a priority for the previous governments. 

However, now central government has made many efforts in the last eight years to bring peace in the northeast, to increase all connectivity and to give priority to the development of this region, he stated.