The North East has the economic potential to come at par with mainland India, and for this, the development of infrastructure is a necessity, Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla said on Saturday.
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Monday announced a medical allowance of Rs 50,000 for each injured in the violent protests outside the CM's secretariat amid the clamour to declare Tura the 'winter capital' of the state.
Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister, Prestone Tynsong on Saturday said that the Meghalaya government and its Assam counterpart have taken a decision relating to three areas of differences amid the border issue between the two states.
"Diversity has always been India's strength. However, it's still early days as we don't know what the final UCC draft would be like. Without seeing the actual draft, it will be difficult going into the details of it," the Meghalaya CM added.
During the meeting, various political parties, including the National People's Party (NPP), expressed their concerns regarding the prevailing conditions in Manipur.
The objective of the conference was to explore connectivity investments and to identify concrete projects in northeastern states of India and with India's neighbours - Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh for implementation under the India-EU Connectivity Partnership.
The Chief Ministers of Assam and Meghalaya will jointly visit West Jaintia Hills and Karbi Anglong areas in June as part of Confidence-Building Measures, where there has been a lot of unrest and conflict in recent times between the Karbi and Jaintia communities.
Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma on Thursday participated in the Chief Ministerial-level meeting with Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and said the meeting was the beginning to find a solution to the border dispute in the six remaining areas.
The Assam and Meghalaya governments will hold Chief Ministerial-level border talks on May 24 in Assam's Guwahati district to amicably resolve the border dispute in the remaining six 'areas of difference'.
After Manipur capital, Imphal witnessed a fresh round of violence and arson with a group of people setting a few houses on fire on Sunday night, Chief Minister N Biren said that action has been taken against those involved in the incidents and the government had been taking up all measures t