Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ‘Asom Mala’ programme in Assam’s Sonitpur district. This initiative will boost the state’s road infrastructure and contribute to Assam’s economic progress and improve connectivity.
The event took place at Dhekiajuli town of Sonitpur on February 07. While addressing the event, PM Modi said, “It is my dream to ensure that every state has at least one medical college and one technical college that teaches in mother tongue.”
“I promise to people of Assam that when we come to power after the election, we will establish a medical and technical college in local language,” PM added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said some forces abroad were conspiring to tarnish the image of Indian tea.
The focus of his speech in poll-bound Assam’s Dhekiajuli, a tea-growing area, was on the tea plantation workers, a major chunk of voters that the Bharatiya Janata Party had weaned away from the Congress ahead of the 2016 Assembly election.
“I want to tell you about a conspiracy hatched to defame the country. The conspirators have not even spared Indian tea. They are saying the image of Indian tea has to be defamed worldwide, systematically,” Mr. Modi said.
He claimed Assam has witnessed unprecedented development in the last five years with increased health and infrastructure development.
Until 2016 there were only six medical colleges in the state but six more were added in just five years. The number of seats in medical colleges have gone up from 725 to 1,600 now, he said, as per PTI.
The Asom Mala scheme, with an outlay of Rs 8,210 crore, will provide inter-linkage between highways and rural roads and high speed corridors.
The Medical College and Hospital at Biswanath will be set up at an estimated cost of Rs 565 crore and Rs 557 crore will be spent on the facility at Charaideo. They will have 100 seats each and serve as hub of medical education and also improve doctor to patient ratio.