Assam govt working for employment generation

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today said that his government was working vigorously to set up industries for employment generation.
"Skill development is a key objective of the state government and we are working seriously in creating skilled human resources in the state," the CM said inaugurating the construction of 500 TDP (ton per day) methanol expansion project of Assam Petro Chemicals Limited at Namrup in Dibrugarh district.
Assam, he said, was a highly industrialised state during the pre-independence period and the state government was committed to work resolutely to usher in a new era of rapid industrialisation.
The methanol project would be set up at an estimated cost of Rs 1337 crore and when completed it would herald a new beginning for the industrial sector leading to the setting up of several ancillary industries.

Sonowal also announced that the fourth unit of Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizers Corporation Limited would soon be set up which will revitalise the organisation and Rs 6000 crore has been earmarked for the proposed plant.
The government was also working towards modernising tea industry and the tea growers must maintain quality in tea production to compete at the global market.
The construction work of a 200 metric tpd formalin plant was also inaugurated today which would come up at Boithamari in Bongaigaon district.
The CM also asserted that his government's agenda was a pollution free state and an ambitious plan of planting ten crore saplings has already been initiated for a clean and green Assam.