As a woman rose to present the state s budget, for the first time in the history of Assam, her first words were “I am presenting this budget with a mother’s compassion”. Amidst the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, when states across India are being forced to deal with economic and humanitarian crises, a good budget can do a lot to boost public morale and bring back hope. With not a single penny of new taxes levied and a perfect balance of measures to spur both investment and consumption-led growth in the state, Ajanta Neog, the first ever woman finance minister of Assam seems to have got it right. Many of the election manifesto promises found a place in the budget ranging from a flood free Assam, micro finance loan waiver and Arunodoy, providing employment of 100,000 youths across 48 departments within a year. Giving a new lease of life to Assam’s spectacular fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, the finance minister also proposed setting up five new medical colleges and 1,0
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Development picked up in Assam as terrorism tamed, says Rajnath Singh
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that developmental activities have stepped up in Assam as insurgency and terror have declined in the State over the years.
| 15 March 2021 3:12 AM GMT
NUMALIGARH/BISWANATH CHARIALI/ GUWAHATI: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that developmental activities have stepped up in Assam as insurgency and terror have declined in the State over the years.
Addressing his maiden election rally in Biswanath district bordering Arunachal Pradesh, he said that with hundreds of extremists belonging to dozens of insurgent groups laying down their arms in the last five years of BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) rule, peace and ethnic harmony has returned to Assam after several decades.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
GUWAHATI: PM Narendra Modi on Monday on his third visit in one month to poll-bound Assam at Dhemaji, dedicated three energy infrastructure in the state worth over Rs 3,000 crore to the nation.
Modi also inaugurated the state’s seventh engineering college at Dhemaji and laid the foundation for the construction of eight engineering college of the state at Sualkuchi near Guwahati remotely from Dhemaji.
The energy infrastructure projects included the Rs 2,600-crore INDMAX fluid catalytic cracking unit at IOC’s Bongaigaon refinery, which will boost high-yield of petroleum products from an array of petroleum fractions, the Rs 490-crore Secondary Tank Farm with Dehydration Facility and Effluent Treatment Plant of Oil India Limited at Madhuban in Dibrugarh district and the Rs 132-crore gas compressor station at Makum.