Guwahati: The Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu has urged people who enjoy traveling to “explore North East, to revel in its beauty and to admire the diversity in our culture”.

The Vice President said this while he was interacting with the participants of the expedition – ‘North East on Wheels’ in which 75 bikers including 5 women from 18 states travelled across all the eight states of the North East.

Naidu emphasised the need of encouraging tourism in the region, saying that "regular people-to-people exchanges and encounters may improve the unity and integrity of our nation."

Before opting to travel overseas, he urged citizens to prioritise domestic travel and see the entirety of the nation.

Naidu, recalling his recent travels to all the North Eastern states, said that with beautiful landscapes, rich culture and warm hospitality of the people, “the states are truly a traveller’s paradise”. He lamented that despite the rich experience the region offers, “many people are still unaware and uninformed about it”.

Appreciating the North East for “showing the way to the country in the field of organic farming”, the Vice President suggested that the other states too should learn​ from the best practices of North Eastern states and gradually shift to sustainable agriculture.

The Vice President also noted marked improvements in infrastructure in the North East, especially in connectivity, and said that these efforts are “unleashing a new era of growth in the region”.