Neglected North East: 87 pct of Indian Professionals can't Name all NE States

It is also important to notice that over 93 percentage of the respondents in the survey really wanted to know more about North East India. How can we consider as a single Nation unless we identify our country as a whole? State and Central government must have to take care in providing knowledge about these North East states to its people.

Below are the key high lights of the survey results as reported by E-PAO!

52 percent respondents have a highly negative perception about North East India.

76 percent have no idea about any peace talks going on between govt. and any militant group of NE.

91 percent have no knowledge about Northeast Industrial Policy.

70 percent respondents won't believe it if one states the fact that 3 of NE states have higher PCI than national average.

30 percent of professionals will never go and work in NE even if that best suits their career interest.

75 percent respondents don't know that the current UPA govt. has ministers hailing from Northeast.

42.7 percent advocates changes in the educational curriculum to provide more information about.