VP urges Mizoram University students to make the state a tourism hub

Guwahati: The Vice President of India, Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday addressed the students of the Mizoram University in its 18th Convocation ceremony in Aizawl.

In his address to the students, the Vice President said, “If you look at the kind of Investments that have been made by the central government in the last decade to improve infrastructure in the North East you will be amazed. We have a kind of linkage of Rail, Road, and digital connectivity Even this day the Prime Minister has inaugurated something very significant for rail connectivity of this part.”

“Now it is for you to scratch your brains, boys and girls. Think big, and make Mizoram a tourism hub.  You can contribute to it, you can contribute to it massively because the state has enough to offer. We have focus elsewhere in the country but when I look at Mizoram and North-East, things are very different. Boys and girls, this part of the country is very precious,” he said.

The Vice President added, “This part of the country has to propel our tourism, our culture, our ecosystem. In the 1990s we developed at the government level at the center look a policy that continued for quite some time. It gives some results but not enough.”

“Prime Minister took great initiative and converted that policy with cutting edge to ‘Look East Act East’ and that has transferred the area economically and otherwise. It's a big change and when this part of the country for which there is a separate department in the central government, We are getting into exponential growth of this area. You can't have better fresh air. You can't have a pollution-free environment to spend your energy,” Dhankhar mentioned.