Shillong, June 19 -- Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Friday highlighted the transformative role of Externally Aided Projects (EAPs) in the state's development and urged the Union Government to remove the existing ceiling on EAP borrowings for North Eastern States.

Saha was addressing the seminar on 'Leveraging Externally Aided Projects (EAPs) in the North Eastern States' in the presence of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Shillong, Meghalaya.

Saha said that Tripura has been at the forefront of leveraging externally aided projects from agencies such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Indo-German Development Cooperation, and the Japan International Cooperation Agency over the past two decades. These part...