I worked in North East for several years. I was posted in Shillong, Tezpur and Gauhati. The region is not developed or promoted for international tourism. Rather the foreigners and even Indians are discouraged to visit these places. Arunachal Pradesh is restricted to Indians also.
That is why North East is so alienated from the rest. The only people who visit the North East are armed forces and other central government employees. There are many good tourist spots un the region. I think that the region should be integrated more with rest of India and tourism developed.
@ GulshanG and Ms, Kalyani
I had been to Itanagar in arunachal Prdesh crossing through border in Lakhimpur district in Assam. s a matter of policy all border states are restricted entry through permit issued by administration level. This includes Indians to take a permit to go to any state including Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal, Sikkim and Tripura. Meghalaya and Mizoram are the only exceptions as these are where we can go without permit. Foreigners are not allowed to travel unless taken a special permission from government of India.
I agree that people are very simple but all the same as on all fronts our government never takes a decision timely and let the matter linger on to take an ugly shape. same is the case with Northeast where Bangladeshis have gone in to majority in most places in Assam and locals have become lesser in number.
Now they want to keep their identity and trying to save their resources which is not a bad thing to do. This has been going on for last 40 years or so and our governments are ignoring the fact considering the illegal migrants as their vote banks. So this was the natural reaction. Now we have over 50 million people from Bangladesh in different parts of our country but look who is running back to their homes!! Now do you think they would ever feel normal once back to their respective states?