ITANAGAR, 27 Jan: Governor KT Parnaik on Monday highlighted the state’s fast strides in financial development, infrastructure, clear vitality, healthcare and training, asserting that the state has emerged as a key driver of inclusive and self-reliant improvement, significantly in border and distant areas.
Unfurling the nationwide flag on the event of the 77th Republic Day at IG Park right here, the governor mentioned that Arunachal Pradesh, with its strategic location, wealthy cultural heritage and plentiful pure assets, performs a significant position in India’s nationwide journey in the direction of development, safety and self-reliance.
He mentioned the state has moved ahead with regular function and rising confidence, guided by outcome-driven governance and stronger establishments.
“The state has recorded remarkable economic progress over the past decade, with the Gross State Domestic Product increasing 2.6 times and the state’s own revenue registering a 17 percent growth during FY 2024-25,” the governor mentioned.
He added that governance reforms have shifted the main focus from scheme-centric supply to predictable, system-based and results-oriented administration, anchored in financial development, human improvement and ecological duty.
Stressing that persons are the state’s best energy, Parnaik mentioned human capital stays the muse of all coverage and planning.
He highlighted main enlargement in healthcare providers, noting that greater than 2.2 lakh households at the moment are lined below cashless remedy via the Chief Minister’s Arogya Arunachal Yojana and PM Jan Arogya Yojana.
“Medical education and tertiary care are being strengthened with doubled MBBS seats at the Tomo Riba Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (TRIHMS). New postgraduate and super-speciality programmes have been started, and new medical colleges are coming up in Pasighat, Namsai and West Kameng,” he mentioned.
Parnaik added that psychological well being care has obtained targeted consideration via initiatives such as the Mukhiya Mantri Manasikh Swastha Yojana and Tele-MANAS.
“The Chief Minister’s Organ Transplant Scheme enabled 51 lifesaving transplants last year, while construction of the State Cancer Institute here is underway. Patient support facilities outside the state have also been enhanced through the Arunachal Cancer Home in Mumbai and a new patients’ guest house in Vellore,” he mentioned.
On the training sector, Parnaik mentioned Mission Shikshit Arunachal 2029 has been launched according to the National Education Policy 2020, specializing in foundational literacy and numeracy, secondary-level efficiency and Twenty first-century abilities.
The governor underlined the strategic significance of infrastructure in a border and hilly state like Arunachal.
He mentioned the state can also be central to India’s clear vitality future, with 1.2 gw of hydropower already operational and 4.8 gw below building.
A significant milestone has been achieved with the graduation of business operations of one 250 mw unit of the two,000 mw Lower Subansiri Hydropower Project, with remaining items anticipated to be commissioned by the tip of the 12 months, he mentioned.
The governor introduced that 2025-2035 has been declared the ‘Decade of Hydropower’, with an Energy Vision 2047 being formulated to make sure sustainable and community-focused development.
Parnaik mentioned that highway connectivity has expanded sharply, with the highway community trebling over the previous decade and annual building rising from 300 km to over 1,800 km.
“More than 4,000 km of national highways are under construction. Flagship projects such as the Rs 55,000 crore Frontier Highway and the Vibrant Villages Programme are enhancing last-mile connectivity, border security and national integration, including in villages along the Indo-Myanmar and Indo-Bhutan borders,” he added.
The governor identified that infrastructure-led reforms have considerably improved dwelling requirements within the state, citing the completion of over 35,000 rural homes below PMAY-Gramin to realize one hundred pc saturation, and the supply of useful family faucet connections to greater than 3.2 lakh rural households below the Jal Jeevan Mission.
In agriculture, he noticed that regular development in meals grain manufacturing, earnings help to over 1.14 lakh farmers below PM-KISAN, enlargement of soil testing services, and elevated oil palm cultivation to spice up diversification and farm incomes.
Placing Arunachal’s progress within the nationwide context, the governor mentioned this 12 months’s Republic Day is very inspiring as it marks the a hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the nationwide music ‘Vande Mataram’.
He paid tribute to the Constitution of India, calling it the dwelling basis and ethical compass of the republic, and urged residents to turn into energetic companions in reform, environmental safety and social concord to construct an eco-conscious, inclusive and resilient Arunachal. (With PTI enter)
