**Executive Summary**
The 4th High-Level Task Force (HLTF) meeting on Tourism was held in New Delhi on December 2, 2025, to develop an integrated tourism blueprint for the North East region. The meeting focused on unlocking tourism potential through improved connectivity, infrastructure, and branding. The Government of Meghalaya is requested to submit the final HLTF report after incorporating the feedback provided by all members.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Tourism Blueprint:**
* The meeting aimed to shape an integrated, action-oriented tourism blueprint for the North East.
* Priorities include sharpening focus, identifying bottlenecks, and accelerating coordinated implementation across states.
* **Tourism Potential:**
* Focus on enhancing multimodal connectivity and world-class tourism infrastructure.
* Develop iconic and globally marketable destinations, and expand adventure and eco-tourism offerings.
* Introduce new tourism products rooted in the region's culture, nature, and heritage.
* **Industry Growth:**
* Upgrade skilling ecosystems, standardize service delivery, and deepen capacity-building to create more local jobs.
* Unified branding of North East India as a premium tourism region with a streamlined policy environment.
* **Inter-State Coordination:**
* Strengthened inter-state coordination to deliver seamless circuits and curated visitor experiences.
* **Minister's Emphasis:**
* North East is positioned as one of India's most compelling tourism frontiers.
* Sharper focus on last-mile connectivity, integrated planning, and sustainability-driven development.
* Develop an annual calendar highlighting all major festivals of the North Eastern Region.
**Impact Analysis**
**Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (MDoNER)**
* **Impact:** Responsible for initiating eight High-Level Task Forces on Tourism. The submission of the final HLTF report requested.
* **Action Required:** Submit the final HLTF report, incorporating the feedback provided by all members.
**North East States**
* **Impact:** Directly involved in implementing the tourism blueprint and leveraging the region's tourism potential.
* **Action Required:** Coordinate efforts to improve connectivity, infrastructure, and branding, and to implement a streamlined policy environment.
Key Entities Referenced
High-Level Task Force on Tourism: A task force focusing on tourism in the North Eastern Region of India.
Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (MDoNER): The ministry responsible for the development of the North Eastern Region in India.
North East India: The geographical region that is the focus of the tourism development efforts discussed.
Ministry of Development of North-East Region
Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia participates
in 4th High-Level Task Force Meeting on Tourism
North East India on Track to Become a Global Tourism
Destination; Roadmap Strengthened
Scindia Calls for Last-Mile Connectivity & Integrated Planning
to Unlock North East’s Tourism Potential
प्रव तथ: 02 DEC 2025 8:15PM by PIB Delhi
Union Minister for Communications and Development of North Eastern Region, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia,
today participated in the 4th meeting of the High-Level Task Force on Tourism held in New Delhi. The
meeting, convened by Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma, witnessed the participation of
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, Sikkim Tourism Minister Tshering T. Bhutia, Arunachal Pradesh
Tourism Minister Pasang Dorjee Sona, and Joint Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, M.R. Synrem.
Building on the outcomes of the previous three meetings, this 4th session marked a critical step in shaping
an integrated, action-oriented tourism blueprint for the North East sharpening priorities, identifying
bottlenecks, and accelerating coordinated implementation across states.
Deliberations centred on unlocking the region’s untapped tourism potential by enhancing multimodal
connectivity, strengthening world-class tourism infrastructure, developing iconic and globally marketable
destinations, expanding adventure and eco-tourism offerings, and introducing new tourism products rooted
in the region’s culture, nature and heritage. The meeting also stressed upgrading skilling ecosystems,
standardising service delivery, and deepening capacity-building to ensure more local jobs and sustainable
industry growth.
Participants underscored the need for unified branding of the North East India as a premium tourism
region, backed by a streamlined policy environment to attract large-scale private investment and foster a
predictable, investor-friendly climate. Strengthened inter-state coordination was highlighted as essential to
delivering seamless circuits and curated visitor experiences across the region.
The Minister emphasised that North East, as Bharat’s cultural and natural powerhouse, is positioned to
emerge as one of India’s most compelling tourism frontiers. He called for a sharper focus on last-mile
connectivity, integrated planning and sustainability-driven development to unlock long-term value for
communities and the wider economy. He emphasized the importance of developing an annual calendar
that highlights all major festivals of the North Eastern Region, thereby fostering wider cultural
appreciation and awareness of the region.
Earlier this year, the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (MDoNER) had constituted Eight
High-Level Task Forces, each headed by one of the Chief Ministers of the NE State along, with Union
Minister of DoNER and three Chief Ministers of other NE States as members. The fourth HLTF meetingon Tourism received positive and constructive engagement from all participants.
Minister Scindia commended the depth and quality of the presentation and requested the Government of
Meghalaya to submit the final HLTF report after incorporating the feedback provided by all members.
Participated in the 4th meeting of the High-Level Task Force on Tourism,
convened by Hon’ble CM of Meghalaya, Sh. @SangmaConrad along with Hon’ble
CM of Tripura, Sh. @DrManikSaha2 ji, Tourism Minister of Sikkim Sh. Tshering T
Bhutia ji, Tourism Minister of Arunachal Sh. Pasang… pic.twitter.com/qgP177fEX
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— Jyotiraditya M. Scindia (@JM_Scindia) December 2, 2025******
Prashant Sharma
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