Foundation stone of horticulture collegeCorrespondent NALBARI, Feb 16 – Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today laid the foundation stone of the State’s first horticulture college under the Assam Agricultural University (AAU), at Lokhowpur in Nalbari district.
Gogoi, who was scheduled to come to the venue of the function by helicopter, finally came by road around 1 pm and laid the foundation stone formally. In his speech he said that his Government was committed to working for the upliftment of under-developed farmers, fishermen and weavers of the State. The Chierf Minister added that the State Government has been working to turn the floriculture, pisciculture, dairy, vegetables and the handloom sectors into industries in lower Assam. Towards that end institutions like the horticulture college would improve the skill and create a good market. Gogoi laid emphasis on improving the agriculture sector so that it would be able to attract the young and educated people. He opined that in order to develop the rural economy, the State must develop agriculture as an industry. The Chief Minister criticised the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for making ‘false’ statements at a meeting in Guwahati recently. He said, “Modi is Chief Minister of a rich state like Gujarat, but my State is very poor, where development is taking place smoothly.” The meeting was addressed among others by Nilamani Sen Deka, Minister of Agriculture, Dr Bhumidhar Barman, Adviser to the Chief Minister, Dr Kamal Malla Bujarbaruah, Vice Chancellor of the Assam Agricultural University and Nalbari MLA Jayanta Malla Baruah. The State Government has sanctioned Rs 45 crore for setting up the college, and initialy a sum of Rs 1.23 crore has been released for construction work. After the horticulture college at Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh under the Central University, this is going to be the second horticulture college in the North East. The classes of the college will started from this academic session from the AAU, Jorhat. (The Assam Tribune,17.02.2014) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ সমাজৰ কাৰণে ভাল কাম কৰাজনৰ পৰিচয় ৰাইজৰ আগত দাঙি ধৰিব লাগে আৰু ভাল খবৰবোৰ যিমান পাৰি ৰাইজৰ মাজত বিলাব লাগে। ---- বুলজিৎ বুঢ়াগোহাঁই _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
