Prime Minister Narendra Modi is launching a couple of infrastructure projects in Mizoram and Meghalaya in the north-east today. Assembly elections in these two Congress-ruled states will be held next year, and the BJP is looking to replicate its electoral victories in Assam and Manipur, another two states in the north-east that slipped from the Congress's hand since April 2016. In Mizoram, PM Modi inaugurated the Tuirial hydroelectric power project that has a generating capacity of 60 megawatts. In Meghalaya, the Prime Minister will inaugurate a road connecting state capital Shillong with Nongstoin, Rongjeng and Tura. PM Modi, after inaugurating the Shillong-Nongstoin-Rongjeng-Tura road in Meghalaya, will address a gathering in what is being seen as the launch of the BJP's election campaign in the Congress-ruled state where assembly elections will be held next year.

The Prime Minister is also set to launch an app via which people in the north-east can connect with the government to monitor projects and ensure quicker release of funds.". The release of fund in many projects in current fiscal year, has taken as minimum as 7 to 10 working days as compared to time taken in earlier approval process." the centre is committed to putting all the state capitals of the north-east on the rail map, and is executing 15 new projects in the region with an investment of over Rs. 47,000 crore. "It is said that the lack of connectivity is one of the biggest hurdles in the path of development of the north-eastern region,"