1. MADE BY
PRIYA SOGANI
DEEPIKA BAHIRWANI
SUKRUTI KAPADIA
SAHIL JAIN
SHASHWAT JHA

2. STRENGTHS
OPPORTUNITIES
SHALE GAS IN THE NORTH EAST
WHY SHALE GAS???
BIOENERGY SUBSTITUTION
WHAT WE HAVE & WHERE WE CAN GO
BANGLADESH MAYBE...
CULTURE ATTRACTS
CONCLUSION

3. • Rich in mineral and water resources
Facilitates power generation
 Makes industrialisation easier
Boost to agriculture
Alternative mode of cheap passenger and cargo
transport
• Fertile Soils
• Mountainous terrain
Facilitates generation of hydel power
 Non-extreme climatic conditions
Gives a boost to cultivation of valuable cash crops such
as tea
 High literacy
 Great potential for tourism.

4. • Many north east zones Rich in natural gas –
opportunity for power commercialization.
• Enhancement through boost to roaring
manufacturing sector.
Bangladeshi markets and FDI from Bangladesh
Access to markets in India (outside North Eastern
India) through --
NEPAL
BANGLADESH
CHINA
& OTHER NORTH EAST COUNTRIES.

5.  North-east
West Bengal
Jharkhand
 (Agro-feedstocks available)
Rice husk,Wood chips and Sugar cane.
 Approximate cost range of feedstocks
(Rs/ton)
1100 to 2600
 Potential for biomass power (MW)
Approxmiate 100

6.  increasing gap between demand and supply of
conventional energy resources.
 exploration of unconventional energy sources.
 possibility of tapping unconventional resources
like methane hydrates, oil shale, coal bed
methane (CBM), and shale gas to meet India's
burgeoning domestic energy demand.
 identified areas in the north-east which have
potential for shale oil.
 has prognosticated CBM resources,
approximately 4.6 TCM.

7. 54% tea produce comes from north east.
Energy requirement high
Increasing price of fossil
Biomass substitution to fossil fuels used
in tea industries
to reduce cost
increase production
reduce pollution.

8.  HIGH potential for the expansion of horticulture
and plantation crops -- requires stimulation
through market access .
 Cultural similarity a favourable factor for trade
with and investment and tourists from
neighbouring countries.
 literacy rate of 73.2 percent as against 63.4
percent for India as a whole.– export human
resource.

9. Access for goods by land very difficult
•Connected to the rest of India by a 22 km
wide stretch of land called the chicken’s
neck
•Goods have to travel parallel to Bangladeshi
border and enter through the chicken’s neck
– high transportation costs
•Bangladesh can provide easier connectivity
for North East India to the rest of India and
through Chittagong Port to the rest of the

10. • Provision of connectivity through
Bangladesh makes travel to rest of India
much shorter
•Pre-partition journey from Kolkata to Agartala
barely 360 km; now as much as 1680 km
Bangladesh is a potentially easy source of
connectivity to the rest of the world
•Agartala is barely 248 kms from Chittagong
•All other N.E. capitals between 600 and 900 km
• Win-win situation for both sides – easier
trade for North East and revenues for
Bangladesh

11.  WHAT ATTRACTS WILL GAIN.
 CULTURE & KNOWLEGDE OF MEDICINES
PERTAINING TO NORTH EAST has always
fascinated not just INDIA but THE WORLD.
 GOVERNMENT need to come out with
schemes providing exposure to the culture
& knowledge of THE NORTH EAST.
 Because
 EXPOSURE GIVES MATURITY
 MATURITY REAPS FRUITS.

12.  North East, especially Tripura and Bangladesh
enjoy a huge scope for mutually beneficial
trade, investment and other forms of regional
cooperation
 Poor state of trade facilitation is a dampener in
this regard
 Connectivity through Bangladesh can provide
easier access for the North-East not only to the
rest of India but to the rest of the world.