India’s ambitious Act East policy for the sustainable development of its North-eastern region by building and enhancing trade and commerce, social entrepreneurship, cultural interaction and other links with Southeast Asia depends on successful development policies in the eight crucial north-eastern states including Manipur which has a major artery and gateway from Moreh on the international border with Myanmar leading into Southeast Asia. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi the new government of India has made its relations with East Asian neighbours a foreign policy priority at a time when the United States has engaged in a pivot to Asia. The Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj proposed a new outlook calling it Act East policy, following on from the Look East policy which was introduced during the government of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and seriously implemented during the following administrations of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh. India’s Look East policy is an effort to cultivate extensive economic and strategic relations with the nations of Southeast Asia in order to bolster its standing as a regional power and a counterweight to the strategic influence of the People’s Republic of China. Initiated in 1991, it marked a strategic shift in India’s perspective of the world. Sustainable development is maintaining a delicate balance between the human need to improve lifestyles and feeling of well-being on one hand, and preserving natural resources and ecosystems, on which we and future generations depend. The idea of limitations imposed by the state of development technology and social organization on the environment’s ability to meet present and future needs. Methodology: focus group discussion with government officials, and Leaders of different communities and Collection and review of literatures of published and unpublished materials regarding the present issues.