Centre will spent over 90 thousand crore rupees for the development of North Eastern region. This include construction of highways and developing rail networks. Addressing a meeting of chief ministers of North Eastern states in New Delhi yesterday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the central government is committed to rapid and sustainable development of the region. The meeting was attended by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog Arvind Panagariya, Chief Ministers of Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura and Finance Minister of Mizoram.<br/><br/>During the meeting the Chief Ministers were briefed on infrastructure initiatives taken up by the Union Government in the region through a NITI Aayog presentation. Under Special Accelerated Road Development Programme for the North-East 35,000 Crore rupees is proposed to be invested to develop the Trans-Arunachal Highway and for connecting all district headquarters by a two lane highway which is about 6400 Kilometres.<br/><br/>New rail network is being created in addition to strengthening the existing network at a cost of 57,000 Crore rupees. Similarly investments are being taken up by the Telecom, Power, Civil Aviation and Shipping Ministries in order to improve the air, road and rail connectivity and internet in the region internally as well as externally, under the Act East policy of the Centre.<br/><br/>However, Chief Ministers of Congress-ruled Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram did not participate in the meeting of the North Eastern states.