Tinsukia Guardian Minister Bimal Bora attends waiver-subsidy distribution program

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TINSUKIA: “The state government has to spend Rs 2,300 crore on microfinance loan waiver which could have been used to build 2,300 km of roads in the state,” said Bimal Bora, the Guardian Minister of Tinsukia while addressing the women borrowers in a waiver-subsidy distribution programme in Tinsukia on Monday. Bora added that it was part of a 12-day development programme of the Government of Assam and implemented in the second phase of the distribution of debt-relief certificates to Category III debtors under the Assam Microfinance Incentive & Relief Scheme (AMIRS) in Tinsukia district.

The Minister stated that it was a very courageous decision of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to give this facility to only 12 lakh women out of 3.31 crore people in the state while simultaneously also building roads and developmental works and responding to the hopes, feelings and emotions of the people.

In his welcome remarks, District Commissioner Swapneel Paul said that debt free certificates will be distributed to 1,916 women in the second phase of the AMIRS. He also said that the meeting was organized to provide subsidy on capital investment to 253 people under the Prime Minister’s Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME) and direct financial assistance to 192 families affected by the disaster. The meeting was attended by MLAs of Tinsukia and Margherita Sanjoy Kishan and Bhaskar Sharma respectively, Moran Autonomous Council Chief Executive Arunjyoti Moran, DDC Pabitra Kumar Das, and several other dignitaries.

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