The North Eastern region is  endowed with vast natural resources such as mineral resources, forest resources, petroleum products, hydel power etc. Additionally, the region is strategically located for international trade, sharing its boundary with four countries viz, China, Myanmar, Bhutan and Bangladesh. However, concrete data to corroborate these claims are not easily available.

The main objectives of this Databank are  :

• To create fresh investment and entrepreneurial initiative by providing up to date data on the resource and infrastructure of the NER;
• To make data available at a single source and also on the internet;
• To encourage research interests on the NER;  
• To classify and organize data uniformly in the NER;
• To cut down costs for the region as a whole in terms of time and money spent on data collection and tabulation by avoiding duplication of effort.

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