Approximately 10000 audiences expected for PM speech during NEC Golden jubilee celebration

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaDecember 16, 2022

The Golden Jubilee celebration of the North Eastern Council will be held on Sunday where the internal meeting will be held at the State Convention Centre Auditorium while the public meeting will be at the Polo Grounds, Shillong.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address in both the meeting. The meeting will be attended by Members of the NEC, consisting of the Union Home Minister, DoNER Ministers, Governors and Chief Ministers of the NE states, Central Ministers belonging to the NE Region, local MPs and MLAs and nominated Members of the NEC in attendance.

Besides, the state Chief Secretaries, Secretaries of Central Ministries, senior officers from the NE states and Heads of the iconic Institutions set up with support from the NEC are also invited.

In the public meeting, besides the local population, prominent citizens, achievers, representatives of Self Help Groups, Farmers’ Groups from all the eight NE states will also be attending the celebration. Approximately 10,000 people are expected to turn out at the public meeting.

During the day, the Prime Minister will inaugurate some important projects of the Region including Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Shillong, dedicate 4G towers of Meghalaya, inaugurate NEC projects and Meghalaya state projects and lay foundation stones for some projects.

“GOLDEN FOOTPRINTS”, a commemorative volume chronicling NEC’s contribution towards the development of the North Eastern Region over the last fifty years will also be released during the Golden Jubilee event. The contents of this book have been gleaned from the Archives of the Council and from the official records of the eight member states of the Council besides capturing in colour the iconic infrastructure and development works supported by the NEC in the recent past.

North Eastern Council (NEC) was established by an Act of the Parliament in 1971. It was formally inaugurated on 7th November, 1972 at Shillong, and has completed 50 years in November 2022. During the 70th Plenary meeting at Guwahati in October 2022 which was held under the chairmanship of the Union Home Minister and Chairman NEC, it was decided that this important milestone of the NEC would be celebrated in a befitting manner.