‘20 pc of IT workforce in B’lore from NE’

Newmai News Network Assam Times KOHIMA, June 18 – Union Minister for DoNER Mani Shankar Aiyer said here on Monday that the people of the North East now do not feel alienated and neglected as the region is now integrated with the mainland India.Speaking at the 23rd annual convention of Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth (SPIC MACAY) inaugural programme here, the Union Minister said that though there could have been some sort of gap but that thing had become a matter of the past.Aiyer also said that some 20 per cent of the workforce in Bangalore’s IT sector is from the North East. He said this to prove his point that the region is fast integrating of late with the mainland.The Union Minister also spoke of his move promoting the North East by way of focussing on leave travel concession of the Central Government employees to visit the North East.