Gogoi for transport subsidy in Assam

"I will take it up with the Planning Commission to provide subsidy in transportation which will develop the industrial sector in the state", Gogoi told a press conference here.

"Big industrialists have not come to the state despite the improved law and order scenario. Our strategies have to be changed and small and medium cottage industries should be set up for which the transport subsidy is a must", he said.

Connectivity was his topmost priority in the third consecutive term of Congress government in the state (led by him), Gogoi said, adding, economic development was a must without which the basic problems afflicting the state will not be resolved.

Lamenting that importance was not given to the problem of erosion by Brahmaputra in the state, Gogoi said, Rs 15000 crore has been sanctioned by the Planning Commission for irrigation and anti-erosion schemes in the state.