Amit Shah To Meet Governors, CMs of NE States to Discuss 'Security Situation'

Amit Shah

New Delhi, July 19, 2019:

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be meeting the Chief Ministers and Governors of the North-Eastern (NE) region at a plenary meeting of the North Eastern Council (NEC) to be held in Guwahati city of Assam on August 3 and 4.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will meet all governors and CMs of the eight NE states for the two days to review and discuss security situation and development issues.

As per reports, Shah will review the progress of various development issues at the NEC meeting. Amit Shah is expected to have a separate meeting to take stock of the security situation in the north-eastern region.

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It is to be mentioned that the NEC was restructured in July 2018 with the nomination of the Home Minister as the NEC chairman and the Minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) as the vice-chairman.

The NEC was established by North Eastern Council Act, 1971, initially as an apex-level advisory body for securing balanced and coordinated development and facilitating effective co-ordination amongst seven states of north-east- Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura.

Sikkim was added as the eighth member state, and the NEC was mandated to function as a statutory regional planning body for the region after the amendment of NEC Act in December 2002.