Guwahati, April 28: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that with the restoration of peace, resolving the insurgency problems and ethnic issues, the development accelerated in the northeastern region of India.

Addressing the mammoth gathering at Loringthepi in Karbi Anglong district of Assam, the Prime Minister said that with the decline of violent activities by 75 per cent over the years, the AFSPA (Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958) has recently been withdrawn from large parts of Assam, Nagaland and Manipur.

“The Bodo accord and Karbi Anglong settlement led to the prosperity of the backward areas of Assam. Problems of displaced Reang tribals were resolved in Tripura,” Modi said after laying foundation stones and inaugurating a cluster of educational and various development projects worth over a thousand crores in Karbi Anglong district.

The projects include Amrit Dhara Project, one agriculture college and one veterinary college and two model colleges.

According to Modi, “Those youths shun the violence and deposited arms and ammunition, and the government would take steps for their rehabilitation. Former militants are now living with their families with peace and prosperity. Era of violence largely ended in the region.”

The Prime Minister said that decades-old inter-state disputes in the northeastern region are being resolved gradually.