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Hon Governor Sri @jagdishmukhi addressed 15th Assam Legislative Assembly today. Sharing highlights of his speech in a thread 👇

📌My Government's topmost priority is to contain the spread of Covid -19 disease during the 2nd wave of the pandemic in the state. 1/n

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HEALTH: The tried and tested formula of test, track and treat, which yielded very positive results last year, is being implemented and efforts are on to augment testing all over the State. 2/n

HEALTH: Special emphasis is being given for accumulation of oxygen from different plants functioning in Assam and neighboring states. Oxygen production capacity has been increased to 58.5 MT/day. Oxygen Generation Plants have been installed by Govt in all Medical Colleges. 3/n

FINANCE: During 2019-20, #Assam's tax revenue generation stood at Rs 16,529 crore. State's tax revenues have seen a steady increase from Rs 12,079.56 crore in 2016-17 to Rs 16,528.69 crore in 2019-20, at an 8.16% compounded annual growth rate. 4/n

FINANCE: In 2019-20, Govt was able to achieve a budget utilization of about 68% which is a significant improvement over earlier years. The actual expenditure made has grown almost twofold, from Rs 41931.32 crore in year 2015-16 to Rs 81,088 crore in year 2019-20. 5/n

AGRICULTURE: The Govt will offer 30% subsidy to interested entrepreneurs for setting up rice mills. 1000 mini trucks will be provided at a subsidized rate to facilitate agriculture market-linkage of farm products. Cold storages in each district of the State will be set up. 6/n

AGRICULTURE: To encourage maize cultivation, State Govt is initiating a new programme in collaboration with Assam Agricultural University. Centre of Excellence for Organic Agriculture at Biswanath, horticulture college at Dima Hasao; Orchid Park at Kaziranga will be set up. 7/n

LABOR WELFARE: During lockdown period, Rs 2K was given to 2, 21, 378 registered construction workers through DBT. Registered construction workers get financial assistance for health Check-up. 8/n

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LABOUR WELFARE: In view of the #COVID19 pandemic, the management of the tea gardens were directed to allow ‘special leave’ with payment of wages up to a maximum period of 14 days to the workers who were quarantined or were in home isolation due to Covid-19 infection. 9/n

ROADS: Assam Govt, with help of the Govt of India, has brought a remarkable change in the road sector. Asom Mala scheme was started in the 2018-19 with the objective to improve SH & MDR network, inter-state connectivity & quality inter-linkage roads between NH & rural roads. 10/n

ROADS: The work of the Ganeshguri flyover at Guwahati has been completed. Work of Supermarket flyover is going to be completed soon.

The physical progress of bridge project to connect North and South banks of river Brahmaputra at Guwahati stands at impressive 35%. 11/n

HOME & POLITICAL: 1615 NDFB, 644 Bengali Adivasi Tiger, 17 ULFA, 13 DNLA, 1 PDCK and 32 UPRF cadres surrendered in 2020 and joined the mainstream. Under “Mission for Overall Improvement of Thana for Responsive Image, Assam”. 55 Police Stations have been completed till date. 12/n

HANDLOOM: Under National Handloom Development Programme (NHDP), Block Level Cluster projects are implemented. A total 59 Projects are sanctioned for Assam with 52,772 beneficiaries and with project cost of Rs 96.48 crores. 13/n

HANDLOOM: Govt has taken up Handloom Model Village scheme at Barun Chitadar village in Majuli & Teliapathar at Moran in Dibrugarh District for sustainable development & preservation of handloom legacy, particularly ethnic, versatile & colourful motifs and apparels of Assam. 14/n

HOME & POLITICAL: 1615 NDFB, 644 Bengali Adivasi Tiger, 17 ULFA, 13 DNLA, 1 PDCK and 32 UPRF cadres surrendered in 2020 and joined the mainstream. Under “Mission for Overall Improvement of Thana for Responsive Image, Assam”. 55 Police Stations have been completed till date. 15/n

FLOOD MANAGEMENT: Govt has prepared a proposal for World Bank funded project “Assam Integrated River Basin Management Project(AIRBMP)” and the same has been approved in principle by the 91st Screening Committee meeting of Department of Economic Affairs, Government of India. 16/n

FLOOD MANAGEMENT: Under this programme, two comprehensive flood management schemes, one at Buridehing river and the other at Manas Beki river at a total cost of Rs. 1393.954 Crore have been proposed. 17/n

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FLOOD MANAGEMENT: During floods of 2020, 24 breaches occurred at different locations of 17 embankments of Brahmaputra valley and the Department has already closed 6 breaches. Remaining 18 breaches are targeted to be closed soon and the works are going on. 18/n
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TEA TRIBES: GoA provides scholarship to students of school & colleges, for ex- Pre/Post-Matric scholarship, Simon Sing Horo Special Post-Matric Scholarship, Financial Assistance for Higher Studies, & Financial Assistance to candidates of ANM/GNM & Technical courses. 19/n

TEA TRIBES: GoA has taken every effort to provide financial assistance to patients suffering from TB, Cancer & other malignant diseases. This year 241 patients have received grants ranging from Rs 10K - Rs 75K depending on the nature of diseases. 20/n

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TEA TRIBES: Recognizing the role of collective self-reliance & financial inclusion through Self-Help Groups (SHGs), GoA provides financial grants, Rs 25K each, to Women SHGs.

Construction of 75 Rangamanchas costing Rs 15 lakh each in tea gardens. 21/n

WELFARE OF MINORITIES AND DEVELOPMENT: During the financial year 2016-17 to 2019-20 a total of 7,51,002 students under Pre-Matric Scholarship, 1,18,924 students under Post Metric Scholarship and 17,851 students under Merit-cum-Means Scholarship were benefited. 22/n

WELFARE OF PLAIN TRIBES & BACKWARD CLASSES: Govt has been promoting development of tribal areas under Tribal Sub-Plan & providing benefits to SC people through Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan. For yr 2021-22, Rs 77.35 cr under TSP & Rs 17.44 cr under SCSP has been allocated 23/n

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