AR-USI meet dissects NER's potential as growth engine
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, March 19 2024:
The third edition of the Assam Rifles-USI Annual Seminar 2024 was held at United Service Institution of India (USI), New Delhi on Tuesday.
As per a release, PRO IGAR (S) informed that in a compelling and insightful seminar, Indian Army veterans and highly experienced speakers including ex-diplomats and eminent journalists from the North East shed light on the topic 'India's Becoming a $5 Trillion Economy by 2025-26 - Role of the North East as a Growth Engine'.
The seminar was attended by vice chief of the army staff .
(VCOAS) Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi with US DG Maj Gen (retired) BK Sharma delivering the welcome address of the seminar.
Assam Rifles Director General Lt Gen PC Nair gave the introductory remarks and underscored the intricate geopolitical landscape of the NE region while emphasising the region's strategic importance.
He gave an incisive insight into the importance of establishing sustained economic development to transform NE Region as a gateway to ASEAN countries thereby acting as India's growth engine in becoming a $5 trillion economy.
The PRO also informed that during the seminar, the speakers drew on their extensive experience and expertise to provide a comprehensive analysis of the strategic challenges and opportunities in the NE Region.
They also elaborated on the role of AR as torch bearers of peace and security in the NE and their crucial role in socio-economic development of the region; the contribution of NE towards national development through natural resources, tourism and sports; the Myanmar factor' in India s 'Act East' policy; the hindrance and disruption caused by ethnic fault lines in the NE, to social cohesion and economic activities; and the effects of termination of Free Move Regime and the fencing of Indo-Myanmar Border, it added.
The talk was very well received by the audiences which had eminent personalities from various policy making bodies and think tanks besides officers from the Indian Army, representatives of various CAPFs and other important stakeholders of the NE Region, mentioned the PRO.
AR in its quest to add academic content of North East has established ties with various think tanks, through seminars, panel discussions and guest lectures.
As part of this outreach, it has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the USI, New Delhi, under which brainstorming seminars and lectures are held annually, it informed.