„Make in India‟, initiated and launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 25th September, 2014, is a new national programme designed to facilitate investment (both domestic and foreign) in manufacturing industry in India. The manufacturing industry needs heavy finance to facilitate the acquiring of latest technology, infrastructure development, human resource development and expansion of the industry that will help them to be globally competitive. Besides service industry, large numbers of people in north eastern region are engaged in agriculture, plantations and mining activities. Northeast is the least industrialised region of the country with abundance of natural and human resources which are untapped. Thus, there is a great potential for agro-based, cement and other manufacturing industries in the region which require urgent attention of the Government, financial service providers and investors. This paper recognizes that the „make in India‟ strategy can be realistic only by better financial services and human resource development in the country.
Keywords: Make in India, new national programme, manufacturing industry, latest technology, service industry, manufacturing industries, human resource development etc.