For decades, the Northeastern states have been showered with government funds to promote development. One of the consequences of this largesse has been widespread corruption with the money getting siphoned off from projects. A less understood but equally debilitating consequence has been the mindset to depend on the government for jobs.
With the government’s capacity to recruit being limited, and the Indian economy opening up, over time young people from the Northeast with a basic education have left their home states to seek livelihoods elsewhere in the country. Look around in any major city and it seems that. . .