Report on Sunrise States: Realizing the growth potential of North-East India

Team MembersArunika Sahu Kallul Hazarika Swadheen Satyakam Mishra Swapnil Kashyap V Sushmitha

The Scenario
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Solution
Preparing a plan of action for building capacities and competencies in critical sectors Identifying institutes and organisations for imparting training and building capacities in the region

Youth UnEmployment & Higher Education

1 in every 15 person is unemployed in this region. Almost in every state the percentage of people attending higher education is below 10.

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120
100 80 60 40 20 0

Setting up of training institutes in the region in important fields through line Ministries, NEC or states

Rural Unemployment in2010 per 1000 persons in201112 Percentage of population (17-23 yrs) enrolling higher Education in 2002-03

Building capacities and competencies in critical sectors in the region

Augmenting the capacity of the existing training institutes in the north eastern states

Approximately 3 million jobs will be created if implemented properly.

Vocational Trainings
Vocational & technical education for semi skilled and skilled construction workers Tribal schools ,craft schools, Management schools Training for Collection ,Preservation& Harvesting techniques IT finishing, fashion design, para medical schools

Higher Education & Research

Chemical, polymer, environmental geological & petro-logical engineering Universities Structural , Construction engineering colleges Legal Studies, Management Schools Agricultural Universities, Bio-tech Facilities and labs Centres of excellence on culture, arts and telecommunication

Entrepreneurship
Consultancy farms Banking and Financial Support Innovation and Development centres established by Public-Private Partnership Apex Governmental and nongovernmental bodies functioning in tandem to Organize and oversee.

It will boost to other sector as it will impart a sound knowledge base to the working force hence strengthening the current working force.

It will not only indirectly boost the production volume of this region but in doing so will be a great impetus to the export-trade of this region

State administration
Funding from

SMALL SCALE RURAL INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

Structure of the Management bodies
At the top there is a state level governing body having expert panels on HRD with nodal centers in every district. The district collector should overlook the working of every blocks under the BDO. The BDO should have the authority to appoint nodal officers who will be in charge of organising the training programmes for the young enthusiasts called Jan Sahayaks. Jan Sahayaks will have direct interaction with the local villagers.

NGOs

District collector Block development officer Panchayat nodal officer Jan Sahayak villagers

Duty of the Nodal Officer

The main duty of the nodal officer is: To train the Gram Sahayaks in various aspects. Assess their performance and progress and in turn decide their incentives . Promote them to the post of sub-nodal officer.

Duty of the Jan Sahayak

The main duty of the Jan Sahayaks is: To organize weekly camps for the locals . Provide them entrepreneurial training about various small scale industries. These Sahayaks would act like a bridge between the nodal officers and the beneficiaries .

Financial support can be provided to the people of these areas by setting up of : cooperative banks, chit fund systems, and self -help groups(SHGs).

1) NGOs can play a major role in funding the nodal officers for carrying out various camps via The Jan Sahayaks. 2) It will be more effective if the state government encourage youths(generally college students ) to form NGOs

1) Women should be involved in such local bodies organizaton so that they are not left behind.

2) They should be motivated by other active women groups.

3) Their potential should be brought to limelight and they should be made self sufficient.

It will be the duty of the administrative body to popularize Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship(under MSME) among the population.

The training for the Jan Sahayaks can be provided in the following areas of small scale industries: Pisciculture Apiculture Animal husbandry Woodcraft Bakery Homemade herbal products Fruits,jams and jellies Paper bags,cups and saucers Textile materials

FUNDING:

1) Loans from MSME can be taken through district collector on recommendation of the nodal officers.
2) They can take low interest loans from cooperative societies and Gramya banks. 3) Eventual incorporation of NGOs will extract external funds.

The Expected Outcomes

Best utilization of hidden natural resources. Promoting entrepreneurship, creating jobs for less educated and unemployed and thus improving the living standards. Development of small scale industries in an organized way. Women empowerment.

Present scenario of MSMEs*

Suggestions
Review practically defunct organizations like NERAMAC, NEHHC etc. Facilitate larger extent of reach for NEDFi.

Trade and Industry intra, national and international

0 2000000

NER 2.15% Rest of India 97.85%

Implement schemes like ASIDE for export/import growth in true spirit.

Carry out SAFTA, BIMSTEC, IndoASEAN initiatives in a healthy balance with domestic schemes (so as not to deter the growth and expansion of the domestic market) as steps for realizing the Look East Policy.

*Fourth all India census 2006-2007

Strategies

Impacts
Generation of interest in potential trading bodies to initiate or expand activities in NER.
Reopen/initiate trade routes like Stillwell road, Karimganj-SylhetDhaka road, routes connecting with Trans-Asian Highways and Railways. Identify and use potential waterways and ports (especially in Bangladesh and Myanmar). Set up more Land Custom Stations and effectively manage the existing ones. Encourage the same for the neighboring countries too. Organize routine trade and industrial delegations from South-East Asia all over NER. Set up banking infrastructure for facilitating activities of national and international trading bodies

Accommodate private participation/investment in schemes of NEDFi, NERAMAC etc.

Relaxation of interest rates and provide interest free loans to the needs associated with the abovementioned by the Government of India. Establish trade centers in each major town (like the Maniram Dewan Trade Center, Guwahati) and local centers of trade in other areas with potential industry, to work in coordination with the above-mentioned.

The SSI in rural areas of the region will get a boost both financially and morally.

Review the existing ailing PSUs. Initiate PPP mode of operation for the same.

Efficient and profit making PPP mode instead of the ailing PSUs will develop the region and also generate healthy revenues. Inter-country trade will boost the economies of the nations involved and this in turn will contribute to the ease of political tensions, if any.

Global exposure to the raw potential industrial and cultural.

The Scenario
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Share of Agriculture in GDP 1993/94 Share of Agriculture in GDP in 2008/09

Agriculture
To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves. -M K Gandhi

120 100 80 60 40 20 0

Available land for Agriculture in 2004/05 (%) Net sown area in 2004/05 (%)

Source-National Accounts Statistics(www.mospi.gov.in)

Strategies & Ways

Assuring food grain security Strengthening Agronomic researchextension linkages
1.Subsidy to production of Cash Crops using Ruza system, Cheo-ozihi and Bamboo Drip Irrigation. 2. There is also a rich variety of medicinal plants which are grown in North-Eastern India such as Paclitaxel is a mitotic inhibitor used in Cancer Chemotherapy (lung, ovarian, breast, head and neck cancer).Paclitaxel is extracted from the stem bark of Taxus brevifolia. Government should advertise, create domestic and international market and proper technological assistance for extraction of medicines from such plants.

Solutions
Diversification through investment in markets , infrastructure , cold storage and food processing besides providing technological and institutional support

3. Rain Water Harvesting as a viable alternative to conventional water supply or on-farm irrigation projects
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4.Horticulture and Floriculture sectors from household activity to commercial ventures ,with an eye on the demand in the markets of Japan ,West Asia ,Singapore ,EU countries
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Growth through areaexpansion , improving cropping intensity

5. Facilitate establishment of Greenhouses for independent farmers; also provide other added incentives like low cost farming equipment . 6. Initiatives like distribution of seeds and other incentives should be implemented (like the distribution of seeds exported from Holland during the 8th and 9th five year plan).

No of Tourists* 700000000 600000000 500000000

Suggestions
Develop Tourism infrastructure transport, communication, power Set up model villages, facilitate access to conserved wildlife or other natural sanctuaries of NER Settle ethnic disputes, curb military and militant problems Financial help to local tourism initiatives both private and public Involve locals in promoting Tourism, as a step of trust-building in them towards outsiders

400000000
300000000 200000000

Rest of India
NER

Tourism

100000000 0

Impacts
Revenue generation will sky-rocket, NER being a tourist hotspot Large scale employment Infrastructure developed for Tourism will make NER easily accessible to outsiders as well as benefit trade and industry Exposure of potential local industries

DT 2009 Domestic Tourists in 2009 NER 5509103, Rest of India 644529570 FT 2010 Foreign Tourists in 2010 NER 50000, Rest of India - 5533746 *Tourist statistics, Government of India

Identified Hydroelectric potential in NER Arunachal Pradesh 50328 MW Hydroelectricity

Implementation of the 50000 MW hydro initiative of the Hydro Policy 2008. Participation of private players in harnessing the hydro electric potential is to be encouraged by both the State and Central governments. Power generation in the desired scale can enable export of power to foreign countries as well as mainland India. Assistance to local population in understanding the benefits and thus curbing resistance by unaware and misinformed mass.

Hydroelectric and Other sources of Power

Rest of NER 12929 MW

Present scenario hydroelectricity in NER Used Power 8411.85 MW Unused Power 54845.15 MW

Other
Solar Power solar power generation stations can be established in remote areas. Simple solar power harnessing devices can be distributed in reduced costs to the rural population.

Huge reserves of non-renewable energy sources (coal, hydrocarbons etc) can be exploited for self sufficiency and exports.

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