When a good number of youths of industrially backward Nalbari district are running after Government jobs, a youth from remote Mukalmua area Sarat Kakati has set an example of self-employment, setting up an ayurvedic medicinal unit at his village. Kakati is also providing direct employment to 20 youths and another hundred indirectly.
Kakati, a engineer set up the Brahmaputra Drugs Company, an ayurvedic manufacturing unit in 1989 as an avenue of self employment. Now the unit has four reputed medicinal products - B - liver, palatable liver tonic, Bonzyme syrup, a digestive and carnimative enzyme, Bikof expt, a cough syrup and Brainovine syrup, a brain tonic. These ayurvedic medicines have been purchased by the State Health department for supply in Government hospitals. While talking to this correspondent, Kakati said that as the herbal plants are available in Nalbair district and most of them were unused in business purposes, he dreamt of opening such a unit. Former Health Minister Dr Bhumidhar Barman encouraged him in setting up the medicinal unit in this remote area. The locally availableplants of herbal medicines are Neem, Silikha, Padina, Bhomora, Jestha Madhu, Beel, Tulsi, Amlakhi, Brahmi, Manimuni, Narasingha, Vedailota, Elachi, Haldi, Dalsini, Lang, Naharu, Jaluk, Sarpa Sudhi, Jaifal, Kokkol, are the main raw materials of this unit. According to Kakati, altogether 20 unemployed youths have been engaged in bottling, processing, labelling and marketing. He further added that as the present Health Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma has shourn interest in the Ayurvedic unit, he has decided to expand the unit in the near future. Monoshree-porna Khound, a student of Campus Law Centre, Delhi University, has received the scholarship to young artiste for the year 2007-08 in the field Indian classical dance (Bharat Natyam) from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India recently. http://www.hardiq.co.nr
