Prime Minister Modi's maiden NE visit to start from today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Guwahati today on his three-day maiden visit to North East. Besides Assam, Modi is scheduled to visit Nagaland, Manipur and Tripura as well.

Modi will flag off the first train from Meghalaya (Mendipathar) to Guwahati via video conferencing from Northeast Frontier Railway headquarters, situated here, soon after his arrival.

He will also unveil the plaque for a new rail line from Bhairabi to Salrang, Mizoram. Later in the evening Modi is scheduled to address the 75th anniversary celebrations of the Assam Tribune Group, a local media house.

On November 30, the Prime Minister will address the conference of director generals of police and chief ministers of all North Eastern states and later address a party rally in the city before leaving for Imphal.

The two day conference, to be inaugurated by home minister Rajnath Singh on November 29, is being held for the first time outside the national capital since its inception in 1920.

In Manipur, he would take part in the closing ceremony of the Sangai Festival and would also lay the foundation stone for a sport's university, to be set up by the Centre.

The Prime Minister is also scheduled to visit Nagaland on December 1, where he would inaugurate the state's biggest festival - the Hornbill Festival and then leave for Tripura, where he would inaugurate the second unit of 726 MW ONGC's gas-based thermal power project in Palatana.

Security in Guwahati city has been beefed up following the recent bomb blast in Dibrugarh district and two incidents of recovery of explosives.

All in bound vehicles, trains and busses to Guwahati city are thoroughly checked and police check-posts have been set up across the city.