Union Minister for Development of North East Region (DoNER) Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday said that the 72nd Plenary of the North Eastern Council (NEC), to be held on Saturday, would lay a new foundation for the speedy growth of the region.

The DoNER Minister, who arrived here on Friday evening to attend the Saturday’s meeting, said that Home Minister Amit Shah would chair the 72nd Plenary session of the NEC meet on Saturday.

“In near future the northeast region would see a rise and fast paced development which has been conceptualised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” he told the media at the MBB airport.

He said that elaborate discussion would be held on Saturday on the NEC's work in the past one year and to fulfill the aspirations of the states from the region. 

Scindia said that the Union Home Minister would also chair an important banking meet which has been organised to reinvigorate the economy's backbone in the northeast region.

In the banking meet, top officials of nationalized, regional and private banks would participate, he said.

The DoNER minister said that a thorough analysis would also be done in the meeting on the record number of bank branches and deposits encashed in the banking system in the northeast.

Ahead of Saturday’s plenary session, a pre-plenary technical session of the NEC was held on Friday and MoS DiNER Sukanta Majumdar  presided over the meeting, where Chief Secretaries of all eight northeastern states, senior officials of DoNER Ministry and the NEC, and officials from all the states of the region took part.

Besides the three union Ministers – Shah, Scindia and Majumdar, in the Saturday’s NEC meeting Governors, Chief Ministers, Deputy Chief Ministers and senior officials of DoNER Ministry, NEC and all eight northeastern states would attend the daylong meeting.