The North Eastern Initiative by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is a step to understand various challenges in solving the question of growth for a region known as the gateway to Southeast Asia. Experts, Rajiv Mundhra, president of ICC and director of Simplex Infra; Naba Kishore Singh, principal secretary (industry) of Manipur; M K Saharia, chairman of ICC's North Eastern Initiative, and Rajnish Kumar, CGM of SBI, Guwahati, among others, address several obstacles en route to shaping India's North East into a hub for international trade and investment.
