The Year Gone By in Tripura
Development initiatives make 2007 eventful: Agartala: Tripura witnessed a remarkable achievement in containing a two-decade-old militancy and several resource mobilisation initiatives in 2007, while political activism and corruption in the state administration made the year gone by eventful. Tripura signed as many as six bilateral trade treaties with Japan, Germany, China and Thailand-based enterprises for utilising forest and agricultural resources for sustainable economic development of the state. As part of the mission, Tripura hosted two international seminars on development of infrastructure and agricultural productivity with world renowned experts. After one and a half decades of attaining statehood, Tripura published a comprehensive Human Development Report (HDR) at the end of the year, which revealed among north-eastern states, Tripura ranked second after Mizoram in the literacy rate; at the same time, there was a substantial improvement in school attendance rates. In terms of ...