Assam deserves better governance: Gadkari

The buoyant Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which hopes to play a dominant role in Assam politics after the assembly elections, has come out with a vision document for the state, 'Asom of our dream: Asom Vision 2025’.  

Releasing the document in Guwahati, BJP national president, Nitin Gadkari, said: “Asom deserves better governance and BJP promises to give it while converting Assam into a developed state free from infiltration."  

Gadkari added: “BJP has a track record of good governance and all the BJP or NDA ruled states in the country today are ahead on several counts and parameters of development. Many of our states like Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh have bagged several awards for better quality of governance.” 

The vision document promises to establish independent universities dedicated to disciplines like animal husbandry, petroleum sciences and establishing a rice research institute and implementation of some schemes and programmes carried out successfully by the BJP governments in other states. Prominent among these are the ‘soil health card’ scheme of Gujarat, e-procurement model of Karnataka, public distribution system (PDS) system of Chhattisgarh, and environment friendly policies of Himachal Pradesh. 

Among other things, the vision document also speaks about greater impetus to food processing industries, developing cities as urban growth centres, incubation centres for promising entrepreneurs through industry-university tie up, constructing adequate number of rail-road bridges across Brahmaputra, introducing latest technologies like GPS, GIS, bio-metrics etc. for e-governance systems mainly to enhance delivery mechanisms and combat corruption.  

The vision document promises to establish independent universities dedicated to disciplines like animal husbandry, petroleum sciences and establishing a rice research institute and implementation of some schemes and programmes carried out successfully by the BJP governments in other states. Prominent among these are the ‘soil health card’ scheme of Gujarat, e-procurement model of Karnataka, public distribution system (PDS) system of Chhattisgarh, and environment friendly policies of Himachal Pradesh.