AGARTALA, April 10 (TIWN): Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog Rajeev Kumar following a successful meeting of the NITI Forum at Agartala State Guest House led by DoNER Ministry said, "The outcome of the meeting begins with the summery of what Prime Minister Narendra Modi said recently..... that's is HIRA for Tripura". "Highway, Internet-way, Roadway, Airways development has been added by our special focus on skill development, which will surely turn the Northeastern states into HIRA". Addressing a press meet after the meeting among the NITI Forum members, Rajeev Kumar told media, "We have basically 5 missions according to the NITI-forum's decision : 1) Horticulture, 2) Tourism, 3) Bamboo production, 4) Made-in-Northeast, 5) Food processing". The forum also announced to open showrooms for Northeast in all Districts of the country. IT and Industry will also be given much priority.

Rajeev Kumar further added, "The connectivity ofcourse comes in the first row of the developmental agenda. In case of Airways, you can say UDAN project is undergoing its 3rd phase. It has been aimed to connect all the capital cities with the Airports directly. In case of road connectivity, we have decided to boost the intra-regional connectivity as the basic problem lies in that". 

DoNER Minister Jitendra Singh said, "Funding for Northeast has been hiked a huge with 100 % fund allocation under DoNER , whereas there was a gap of 70 years long without implementation of developmental schemes in Northeast. Under the new govt transparency will be maintained along with accountability". 

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 8, 2018 in Tripura election rally said, “Tripura will get HIRA in coming days. Hira has a meaning. We all need Hira, but here Hira means H for Highway, I for I-ways means the digital-waves (Internet), R for Railway and A for Airway. Tripura will have three “T”. T for Trade, T for Tourism and T for Trainings for unemployed youths. One the one side, we will have connectivity and on the other side, developments will come, livelihoods of common men to be changed.

Today the forum announced, NITI Aayog and DoNER will be working together to actualize PM Modi's HIRA project.