<span style="color: #222222;">The North Eastern Council (NEC) and the National Productivity Council (NPC) have agreed on a tie-up venture in the area of capacity building and evaluation of projects, a press release informed. <br />'' <br />'' Director General, NPC Dr. Amita Prasad, visited the NEC Secretariat, Shillong today and discussed on the possibility of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to train officials in the area of project implementation and management including third-party evaluation of projects, energy auditing, and digitization for smart governance with Secretary NEC Ram Muivah, and other officials.<br />'' <br />'' With this initiative, the benefits to the North Eastern Region would be immense in terms of improved capacity in project implementation and management which will help in timely completion of projects added the press communiqué. <br />'' <br />''<br />''Dr Prasad requested the States of the North East to approach the NPC with proposals for capacity building programmes and have similar MoUs with the NPC to train the State officials.</span><br />