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Investments in the Northeast fail to generate employment
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Black hole
for all investments into the Northeast is Assam
State Number
of units
Investment
(Rs in crore)
Percentage
of share
Employment
(numbers)
Assam 511 1,038.08 81.88 12,827
Meghalaya 49 190.24 0.15 4,244
Nagaland 48 19.63 1.55 439
Arunachal 10 10.29 0.81 140
Tripura 28 9.63 0.76 357
TOTAL 646 1,267.87 100 18,007
Source: SK Mishra 2002, 'AGRICULTURE IN THE NORTH-EASTERN REGION', Department of Economics, north east hill univeristy, Shillong.

Anon 2003, Basic Stastics for Northeast, North East Council, Shillong

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