India’s east brims with enormous potential, government’s Purvodaya vision will ensure it bears fruit

Odisha in the 70s – the years of my childhood – was a place of much enchantment and innocence even as it was characterised by crumbling infrastructure, potholed roads and shoddy bridges. The same held true for most of the east and northeastern region (NER). Undoubtedly, much has changed since. However, it seems to me that the region remains pulsating with unmapped potential even as the rest of the country has moved forward. If India’s eastern and northeastern flank (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Bengal) were to be a country it would be the fifth largest bauxite producer, the seventh largest coal producer and the fourth largest iron ore producer in the world. Moreover, the east and NER has a young population while southern and western India is seeing an ageing population, in fact at a rate comparable to that of European nations. To take advantage of these opportunities the need of the hour is to equip the population with market relevant skills aligned to our current needs. Our attempt is to provide the physical and intellectual infrastructure to empower youth. Around 2,578 ITIs with seat capacity of 6.18 lakh have… Read full this story

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