Editor,
Apropos to news updates in prominent news dailies reported a manufacturing centre for semiconductors by Tata Consultancy Services TCS as they are globally known and a first direct investment in that state. The news gained a lot of excitement and traction amongst many industrial houses and tech savvy professionals in the Northeast. What makes Assam an attractive centre for long term investment it is because of critical factors which one of them is availability of land unlike in our state where multiple power centres take decision, secondly is the huge availability of skilled professionals, third is the connectivity that brings development to the state, fourth is the business friendly atmosphere minus goons and pressure groups unlike here where the minute any infrastructure comes up it’s always demands or so-called donations that hinder progress, and fifthly is the proactive and no-nonsense approach by the state leadership for the benefit of the state which is where we still lack. Take a look at the state IT Park, we can count the number of private firms who have setup their operation centers or take for instance like the coming of railways just for goods and commodities till Byrnihat this investment would propel the state economic growth far better than what we are facing currently. When Anand Mahindra had in his tweet stated that he wished to visit Meghalaya our state government perhaps missed the bus of inviting him with a red carpet welcome and unfortunately we have petty politics always at play thereby depriving so many talented, skilled young people from jobs. In short how do we make Meghalaya investment friendly is a billion dollar question.
Dominic S. Wankhar
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