North East India, a rainbow country, opulent in ethnic composition and identity, is blessed with a treasure trove of flora and fauna and abundant natural resources. The eight states located in India’s North East cover an area of 2, 62,179sq. Km, constituting 7.9 percent of the country’s total geographical area, but have only 39 million people, about 3.8 per cent of the total population of the country (2001 census). Perhaps no other region in the world with corresponding size and population has so much diversity as this region does. The abiding factors that make the relation-ship of the diverse section of the people, however, since the beginning of time, are common quest for progress, prosperity and enlightenment.