MDoNER

2.1.NESIDS

North East Special Infrastructure Development Scheme” (NESIDS) was approved by the Government of India as a Central Sector Scheme. Under the Scheme guidelines of NESIDS, 100% centrally funding is provided to the State Governments of the North Eastern Region for the projects of physical infrastructure relating to water supply, power and connectivity enhancing tourism and Social infrastructure relating to primary and secondary sectors of education and health.

2.2.NLCPR

The Non-Lapsable Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR) Scheme came into existence in 1998 under the Planning Commission. Subsequently, it was transferred to DoNER in 2001. Since the inception of the Scheme, various projects were sanctioned across sectors for the development of the North Eastern Region as per Scheme guidelines framed for the purpose and revised from time to time.

The objective of the NLCPR Scheme is to fill up the gap in the infrastructure sector of the North Eastern Region by sanctioning the projects prioritised by the State Governments. Ministry gets Annual Budgetary Allocation from the Ministry of Finance for funding the projects under NLCPR Scheme. Funds under the scheme are shared between the Central and State Governments on a 90:10 basis.

2.3.SIDF

The Union Finance Minister in his Budget Speech for 2008-09 announced to set apart a sum of Rs.500 crore (subsequently enhanced to Rs.586.20 crore) for the North Eastern Region (NER), especially for Arunachal Pradesh and other border areas facing special problems that cannot be tackled through normal schemes. This is called the Social and Infrastructure Development Fund (SIDF). It is a one-time package that covers projects, prioritized by the State Governments as per their requirement, which, inter alia, include the construction of new roads and bridges, re-establishment of new sub-stations/transmission lines, construction/upgradation of hospitals, the establishment of schools, water supply projects etc.

2.4-10 per cent GBS

Earmarking 10% of their Annual Plan Budgets by Central Ministries for the North Eastern Region is a bold step by the Union Government to address the development deficit of the NER. 10% of the Annual Plan Budget of 52 Ministries of the Union Government is earmarked every year for spending in NER since 1998-99 even though the NER has 7.9% (2,62,179 sq. km out of 3287263 sq. km) of India’s land mass and 3.76% (4.55 crore out of 121 crores) of the population as per Census 2011

2.5.The North East Venture Fund (NEVF)

Ministry of DoNER had joined with North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd (NEDFi) to set up the North East Venture Fund, the first and the only Venture Fund for Northeast with an initial corpus of Rs. 100 crores. The fund targets to invest in Start-Ups and unique business opportunities to provide resources for new entrepreneurship. The main focus of the North East Venture Fund (NEVF)  is for mostly the enterprises involved in Food Processing, Healthcare, Tourism, segregation of services, IT, etc.

2.6.STINER

The main objective of Science & Technology Interventions in the North East Region (STINER) is to bring in the latest and advanced technologies to the North-Eastern region to help the women farmers and other artisans living there. National research institutes and technological institutions such as IITs are assigned to develop new technology for the people living in the Northeastern region which can help them in agriculture.

3. Other Initiatives for the Northeastern region

4. External aided projects

4.1.North Eastern States Roads Investment Programme (NESRIP) assisted by Asian Development Bank (ADB)

The scheme envisaged construction/up-gradation of total 433.425 km long roads in 6the  North Eastern States of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura.

4.2.North East Rural Livelihood Project assisted by World Bank

The objective of the North East Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP) is “To improve rural livelihoods, especially that of women, unemployed youth and the most disadvantage, in four North Eastern States”. The proposed project has four major components:

• Social empowerment;
• Economic empowerment;
• Partnership development & management and
• Project management.