The 24th meeting of the North Eastern Council will be held here at the Conference Room of the Meghalaya Civil Secretariat, on September 29, next.The Council meeting will as usual be presided over by its Chairman Mr Bhishma Narain Singh. It will be attended by the Chief Minister and Lt. Governors of the constituent units of the North Eastern Region. The Governor of Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura, Gen K.V. Krishna Rao will also attend the meeting.
Representatives of various Ministries of the Government of India, various Public Sectors Organisations of the Government of India, Railway Board and P&T Board will also be in the meeting.
Besides reviewing the physical and financial progress of the NEC schemes implemented during 1983-84, the Council will discuss the draft Seventh Plan of the North Eastern Council and the Annual Plan for 1985-86.
The Council meeting to be preceded on September 28, by official level discussion in which the agenda of the meeting will be discussed by the Secretary of the North Eastern Council, Mr P H Trivedi with the Chief Secretaries and the Development Commissioners of the constituent units of North Eastern Region.
A 50-bedded district hospital at Williamnagar in East Garo Hills District will be inaugurated on September 14 by the Meghalaya Chief Minister, Capt W.A. Sangma, at a function to be presided by the Health Minister Mr Sandford K. Marak.