B Tech graduate becomes an ideal for Assamese youth

A CORRESPONDENT

NAGAON: Haren Chandra Borah, a young entrepreneur who is also a Bachelor of Technology with MBA in marketing and sales and worked in various private companies in several Arabian as well as other countries for quite some time, has finally become an ideal profit-making self-employed entrepreneur even in the agricultural sector for thousands unemployed educated youths in the district.

When the problem of employment in government as well as in private sectors poses a hard deal to crores of young educated youths across the country compelling many of them to lead a miserable life with utmost despaired and frustration or to waste the most valuable time by waiting for a job to design their lives and careers, Haren Chandra Borah, a young entrepreneur of Nagaon, has paved a road of earning of his own for survival. Besides, he extended his financial support to over 50 families of his employees and other beneficiaries in the district.

The young entrepreneur set up a private cooperative society named - 'Ankur Minpalon Samobai Somitee' two-and-a-half years ago and started a composite fish bowl covering over 200 bighas of barren private agricultural land lying empty as waste wetlands for over years in Rahdhola pothar near Kakomari village under Raha revenue circle.

Along with the mega project of fish farming, he also started a composite duck, poultry and piggery farms with a large orchard of 50 varieties of various local and foreign fruits like grapes, cherry, jackfruit, lemon, guava, blackberry, apple berry, etc., in the banks of the fish farm with all modern and sophisticated technical support.

It is noteworthy that his fish cooperative society - "Ankur Minpalon Samobai Committee" has been selected for a mega project in the current session by the National Fishery Development Board, Government of India.

Speaking to this correspondent here, Haren Chandra Borah said that there was a huge area of land lying barren for over years as waste wetlands in Rahdhola pothar near Kakomari village in the district in which some bighas of land was of his own.

Along with my land, I took over 150 bighas of land from other 36 landholders on a lease agreement for the entire project and managed the required fund for the project from two of my well-wishers, he said, adding that he did not receive a single rupee from any government agencies except the selection for a project by National Fishery Development Board till the filing of this report.

Pointing out the income of the society during the last two-and-a-half years, he said the society sold over 20 litter spawn for the first phase in the current year and earned Rs 20 lakh. He, however, said the production of spawn is going in full swing and expects that the fish cooperative society will earn some more lakhs in dealing with the spawn during this season.

Besides, he said the society is rearing more than 200 numbers of local ducks, 200 numbers of local chickens and 20 numbers of local pigs in three separate zones of the composite farm at Rahdhola pothar in Kakomari village.

Referring to the future activities of the cooperative society initiated by him, he further said that the society would set up hatchery and also produce the foodgrains for fish and poultry farming so that the society could avail all requirements of its own and could expand its business in a larger scale.

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