Guwahati, Jan 2 : Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi today unveiled a Rs 500-crore package to boost the state’s social sector and hiked the interim pay relief to 25 per cent till the finalisation of the state pay commission’s report.
Gogoi made the announcement during an interaction with mediapersons this morning. The move will benefit government employees, the unemployed, research scholars, farmers, students and insurgency-affected areas.
The chief minister, who was greeted by a host of cabinet colleagues and party leaders, revealed that the sum (Rs 500 crore) would be spent in addition to what has been already earmarked for social sector projects. However, he did not specify the projects.
Sources in the chief minister’s office said a major part of the fund would be spent on the slew of schemes for 2009 that he announced alongside the multi-crore rupee package this morning. In the cabinet meeting held this evening, the government has also decided to regularise the services of teachers, among others.
“I have decided to take up several new welfare measures for all-round development of the state this year,” Gogoi said before releasing a 546-page book, Towards Vibrant Assam — The voice of chief minister Tarun Gogoi edited by Deba Kumar Bora and Dr Basanta Kumar Goswami. The book is a documentation of interviews, speeches, memoranda and letters of Gogoi from 1971 to 2008.
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