{"id":20045,"date":"2018-02-18T02:33:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T21:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=20045"},"modified":"2018-02-18T02:33:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T21:03:41","slug":"centre-to-fully-fund-projects-in-ne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/02\/18\/centre-to-fully-fund-projects-in-ne\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre to fully fund projects in NE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>NEW DELHI, Feb 17:<\/strong> The central government has decided to fully fund various central projects being implemented in the Northeast, instead of the existing practice of sharing 90 per cent of the cost.<br \/>\nAddressing a press conference here on Saturday, DoNER Minister Jitendra Singh said ever since the Narendra Modi dispensation assumed office, the Northeastern region has been given the utmost attention.<br \/>\n&#8220;There will be 100 per cent funding by the central government for projects in the region, which were earlier being undertaken on the basis of centre-state sharing in the ratio of 90:10,&#8221; said Singh.<br \/>\nHighlighting the steps taken for the development of the Northeast in the last four years, Singh said the 90-year-old Indian Forest Act of 1927, which was a legacy of the British Raj, was amended through a decision of the union cabinet.<br \/>\n&#8220;As a result, bamboo, which was defined as a &#8216;tree&#8217; under the Indian Forest Act of 1927, was changed, thereby doing away with the requirement of obtaining a permit for cutting of bamboo on non-forest land for economic use,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThis, Singh said, is going to be a game-changer for generations to come, by opening new avenues of job generation and entrepreneurship by allowing bamboo cultivation and bamboo use by non-farmers on non-forest land.<br \/>\nThe union minister said that under the central government&#8217;s Bharatmala Pariyojna, as many as 5,301-km roads in the region have been taken up for improvement. Out of this, 3,246-km roads have been marked for development of economic corridor in the Northeast.<br \/>\nAlso, bidding process for the India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway has begun, he said.<br \/>\nSingh said the government has created an exclusive forum at the NITI Aayog for preparing plans for the region, which will be co-chaired by its vice-chairman and the DoNER secretary.<br \/>\nThe minister said the forum would look into various proposals both at the central and state levels and prepare plans for the speedy development of the Northeast. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Feb 17: The central government has decided to fully fund various central projects being implemented in the Northeast, instead of the existing practice of sharing 90 per cent of the cost. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, DoNER Minister Jitendra Singh said ever since the Narendra Modi dispensation assumed office, the Northeastern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}