Assam CM Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma is addressing the media in Guwahati over decisions taken in yesterday’s cabinet meeting
Here are the live updates of the announcements made by CM Dr Sarma
- Jal Mitra workers henceforth can also be used in sanitation work.
- Assam Cabinet expressed its heartfelt gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for approving the Rs 22,864 crore Shillong-Silchar Greenfield High Speed Corridor.
- Assam Cabinet ratifies Government’s decision to provide Rs 5 lakh ex-gratia to the next of kin of those killed in the Pahalgam terror attack. The ex-gratia would be given to the victim families after May 12.
- Government orders will henceforth be known as EXECUTIVE ORDER instead of OFFICE MEMORANDUM.
- Cabinet approves projects with investment worth Rs 7,730 crore in Assam following-on proposals signed in Advantage Assam 2.0. Out of this amount, Rs 1,500 crore will be foreign investment which will provide direct employment to 16,746 unemployment youths of Assam.
- People having ration cards will get pulses, sugar and salt at subsidized rates from October.
- Gaurav Gogoi visited Pakistan and even met a Pakistani Army officer. He also took 90 Indian youths to the Pakistani Embassy in New Delhi for the purpose of radicalizing them.
- Forty people have been arrested in Assam for making pro-Pakistan comments in social media after the Pahalgam terror attack. NSA will be slapped against a couple of them but not all since many have expressed remorse for what they have done.
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