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The Government has set up a 25 member high level Group under the chairmanship of the Minister for Human Resource Development to address specific issues relating to education, women & child development in the North Eastern Region including Sikkim. This is in pursuance of the announcement made by the Minister for Human Resource Development Shri Arjun Singh at the Conference of Chief Ministers and Education Ministers of North Eastern Region at Shillong on June 14-15, 2004. The Group will also address issues regarding funding of projects relating to education, women & child development from the Non-lapsable Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR) for the North East and to advise, suo-moto, or on a reference made to it by the Central Government or any of the North East State Governments on any question relating to these issues.
Besides the chairman there will be 24 other members of the Group. They are:
o Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region
o Ministers of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development
o Chief Ministers and Education Ministers of the 8 North Eastern States including Sikkim
o Secretaries in the Ministry of Human Resource Development viz Secretary (Elementary Education and Literacy), Secretary (Secondary & Higher Education) and Secretary (Women and Child Development).
o Additional Secretary (Education)
The tenure of the Group will be five years and it will try and meet at least once every quarter either in one of the North Eastern State Capitals or in New Delhi to review and monitor progress.
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