Peace and prosperity in the region with the mission to build consensus on solutions for fulfilling these goals
The foundation brings together, for the first time, the eastern and north-eastern region of India with their proximate neighbours - Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and beyond, with the ASEAN nations and the wider Indo-Pacific region. The States located in India's north-east - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura and in the east - Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal and Andaman and Nicobar in the south-east, have strong common ties of history, culture, language and customs and traditions from early times.