It has always been a critical issue to adopt and implement sound and sustainable development practices in North East Region (NER) of India. Widely, factors around key development and governance issues has been discussed and debated quite often than late, more in the context of how resources are spent and sustained on the ground benefiting the people and communities at large. Irrespective of these, the moot point is the prime need in North East today is sound development and governance mechanisms in place based on State specific cultural and ethnographic considerations. The emphasis is and ought to be on how the regional development leadership and stakeholders in NER gives greater emphasis on evolving out workable models of development, advocacy and governance.