Golden jubilee of North-Eastern Council (NEC)

About North Eastern Council (NEC)-

• Established by an Act of the Parliament in 1971 , NEC was formally inaugurated on 7th November, 1972 at Shillong, Meghalaya, marking the beginning of a new chapter of concerted and planned endeavor on the part of the Government of India for the North Eastern Region. 
• Originally consisting of the seven states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura, Sikkim was included as the eighth member state through the NEC (Amendment) Act, 2002.
• North Eastern Council (NEC) is under the administrative purview of the Ministry of Development of the North-Eastern Region (MDoNER). 
• Some of the most iconic Institutions of the North Eastern Region such as-
  • The Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal;
  • North East Police Academy (NEPA), Shillong; 
  • North East Region Institute of Water and Land Management (NERIWALM), Tezpur; 
  • North Eastern Space Application Centre (NESAC), Shillong; 
  • Dr. Bhubaneswar Borooah Cancer Institute (BBCI) Guwahati etc. have been set up with NEC support.
• The policy deliberations at the NEC are conducted at the Plenary meetings of the Council. 
• Since 1972, the NEC Plenary has been held in various North Eastern States and the national capital on seventy occasions.