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Jairam Ramesh
BHUBANESWAR: A focused agenda has to be worked out jointly by the Centre and the States concerned to ensure development of the country's eastern region, Jairam Ramesh, economist and Member of Parliament said here on Sunday. The eastern region of the country needed development in the fields of agriculture, irrigation, infrastructure and industry to help improve the economic condition of the people, Mr. Ramesh said. "Focus on heavy industries alone is not going to benefit the region." Delivering the Mahtab Memorial Lecture on "Resurgence in eastern India," Mr. Ramesh said there were three major paradoxes in the region. The eastern region of Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam and the remaining north-eastern States was "resource rich but performance poor, politics rich but governance poor and culture rich but population poor." Mr. Ramesh said the region was lagging behind the rest of the country despite having enormous mineral reserves and abundant water resources. The region had a high degree of political awareness but no State here had had good governance. The political leaders of the region always believed that setting up heavy industries would help improve the situation and accorded little priority to developing agriculture and human resource. Measures were required to develop agriculture and also ensure that farmers got the minimum support price for their produce, he said. The region required a "radical fiscal surgery." Only 10 per cent of the expenditure of Arunachal Pradesh was being managed from its own resources with the rest coming from the Centre, he said. The economist-politician also emphasised on the need for development of accessibility with the States falling under the region as well as with China and Bangladesh. The Central Government must play a key role in this regard. The lecture was organised by the Dr. Harekrushna Mahtab Foundation.
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