The chief ministers of the eight north-east region states today appealed to corporate India to identify the investment opportunities offered by the region. Chief ministers of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura, Sikkim and Nagaland sought to dispel fears of corporate India about the safety of their business operations in the region.
Addressing an elite gathering from India Inc, Tarun Gogoi, chief minister of Assam, the most developed state in the region, said: "The problem of Assam is that there is a huge pool of educated and qualified manpower that is unemployed."
Bimal Jalan, the Reserve Bank of India governor, M K Sharma, vice-chairman of Hindustan Lever, Rajendra Pawar, chairman of NIIT, and K V Kamath, managing director & CEO of ICICI Bank, were among the leading personalities who spoke at the summit.
