Higher
Education in the NER: Current Situation and the Initiatives
Adopted
By Ms.
Sudhiti Naskar
The North Eastern Region of India makes headlines for countless
insurgencies and ethnic battles, although it would hardly
represent the series of varied issues these states need to
address. Education, which is one of the core features of any
state or country's infrastructure, is inadequate in these
states. Every year hundreds and thousands of students have
to go out of their homes to other states in the country to
be able to achieve standard higher education (HE). While it
is a matter of pride for any institute to have students from
different corners of the country, the trend itself points
out to the fact that the existing colleges in some regions
are failing to fulfill the academic and professional aspirations
of the young scholars in their region. Detailed
paper
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Why
Education Is an Answer to India's North Eastern Region
By Ms.
Sudhiti Naskar
Back
in 2005, Prime Minster Dr. Manmohan Singh laid bare his vision
about India's North East, that he outlined at the East Asia
Summit – which stressed over looking North East to have
a beefed up trade interactions between the ASEAN countries
by opening up strategic channels and highways internationally
and developing the region in question "as a major manufacturing
and redistribution hub". Detailed
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