Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal Urges Tea Youths To Face Challenges

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal Urges Tea Youths To Face Challenges

GUWAHATI: Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has called upon the younger generation of the tea community to enrich themselves with the knowledge to excel in the present competitive environment.

Inaugurating the second phase of Asom Sarkar Chah Bagicha Dhan Purashkar Achoni at Sarusajai Sports complex in the city on Friday, Sonowal exhorted the younger generation to take full advantage of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s various schemes such as Skill India, Startup India, Digital India etc for youth empowerment. He said the young generation must acquire skills to take advantage of the positive situation arising out of the Central government’s massive investments in the natural oil and gas sector.

Sarbananda Sonowal urged the youths to follow the footsteps of tea community leaders like Simon Singh Horo and Santosh Kumar Topno in working for the betterment of the community.

“The tea community has made lots of contribution to the greater Assamese society and the young generation of the community must take it upon themselves to bring about transformation through education and knowledge. Our government is committed to facilitating the required infrastructure for ushering in a period of development in the tea garden areas. The line sardars also have a crucial role to disseminate information about various schemes launched by the state government for tea community,” Sonowal said.

It may be mentioned that during the first phase of the Asom Sarkar Chah Bagicha Dhan Purashkar Achoni an amount of Rs 2,500 was deposited in 7 lakh bank accounts of each member of tea community of 752 tea gardens in 26 districts of the State. In this second phase, the same amount would be deposited in the bank accounts by the State Government.

The chief minister also launched the scheme for distributing smartphones to a total of 11,858 line sardars of the State along with a distribution of non geared scooters to meritorious girl students, handing over of admission letters to 200 girls for GNM courses, scholarships to pre-matric and post-matric students etc.

Speaking on the occasion, Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that state government has organized this programme to create awareness about the various schemes launched by the state government for the tea community. He also highlighted the budgetary provisions kept for the tea community’s development in the State Budget for 2019-20.

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