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ITANAGAR: Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh on Thursday said that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the work culture of Northeast has got drastically transformed in the last 8 years.
As a result, the Minister said, now the projects in Northeast are getting completed within a fixed timeline and the utilisation of Central funds is almost 100 percent.
Every State is connected to the union capital by railway and each of the eight States is coming up with its airport whereas Guwahati has turned into an important international airport.
Inaugurating the two-day Regional Conference on the theme “Bringing Citizens and Government Closer through Administrative Reforms” here along with Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu, Dr Jitendra said, prior to 2014, the North Eastern Region suffered economically due to myopic policies of the successive central governments, but soon after the Modi government took over in 2014, the Prime Minister had stated that every effort would be made to bring the region at par with the more developed areas of the country.
He said, in the last eight years, not only developmental gaps were bridged successfully, but the north-eastern region has also gained psychological confidence.
The Minister added that the significant development in terms of road, rail and air connectivity is helping facilitate the movement of goods and persons not only across the region but also across the country.
Coming back to Administrative Reforms, Dr Jitendra Singh said, India believes that 21st century Public Grievance redressal would be based on single window agencies which will help citizens use information for seeking better services. He added that many methods have been contemplated including One Nation One Portal, Multilingual CPGRAMS for enhanced citizen outreach, data analytics to measure the quality of grievance redressal, feedback call centres and provision for citizen transcripts on the CPGRAMS portal etc.