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Delhi, Oct 16: With improvement in connectivity and transport facility in
the last two years coupled with concentrated administrative focus, more and
more youngsters are now heading towards the North-Eastern States to venture
into entrepreneurship and take advantage of its unexplored potential, Minister
for Development of North Eastern Region Jitendra Singh said. Addressing the
two-day National Convention on "Transforming Northeast India" here on
Sunday, Dr Singh said the region was fast emerging as the new
"StartUp" destination for youngsters from all over India. In an hour
long interactive session with youth, Dr Singh pointed out to another area for
future StartUps and said during the peak season of tourism when there was no
accommodation available, even mediocre hotels charge exorbitant fares which
were sometimes equal to 5-star hotel fares in a metropolitan city. However, he
said, as the ‘home tourism’ trend has picked up, many youth were now making a
fortune out of this hitherto unexplored avenue. He also referred to the new
airports coming up at Pakyong in Sikkim, Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh and Shillong
in Meghalaya, which along with a time-bound plan to lay broad-gauge rail track,
would bring in more ease of business. The Minister said another sector of
entrepreneurship that was emerging was the medical and healthcare. For years,
he said, there has been a trend for patients to shift outside the region,
mostly to Kolkata or Vellore, but the encouragement given to the private
corporate sector has now resulted in the opening of new hospitals within the
region itself and young entrepreneurs were taking the lead. In this regard, he
also referred to the initiative taken by DoNER Ministry to promote
public-private partnership with some of the leading corporate players. Stating
that women in Northeast were already empowered and professionally more active
as part of their tradition, the Minister pointed to the recent initiatives of
encouraging Self Help Groups to promote household entrepreneurships, in which
young StartUps have also come forward and opted to work in the sector of
handloom and textile. Member of Parliament Vinay Sahasrabuddhe also addressed
the convention. UNI
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