Join start-up movement, says Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal

TEZPUR: Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said that access to educational experience at a renowned institution like Tezpur University would reward them (students) all throughout their life.

Speaking on the occasion of the 18th Convocation of Tezpur University on Friday, Sonowal said, "On the fierce competition in the present-day society the students must have been awakened to the realities of intense competition and acquired capacity during their stay in the university to take advantage of competitive environment prevalent outside."

Sonowal asked them to use this capacity to create wealth and welfare for the society and for the organizations they belong to. He also said that students should consider it to be their bounded duty to strive for welfare of society, for reducing disparity therein and to empower those who are disadvantaged.

Sonowal said that the lockdowns did not only facilitated measures in arresting the virus spread to a considerable extent, it also gave the country much needed time to gear up its health infrastructure facilities, medical equipment producing trained manpower which have helped the country in taking aggressive measures to trace, test, isolate, treat and prevent the spread of cornavirus.

Sonowal said that the north-eastern region at this moment is experiencing rapid progress due to unparalleled political will of the Prime Minister. With significant boost to connectivity and speedy industrialization, the region is fast emerging as the nerve-centre of India's economic activity.

He further said that the "Act East Policy" enunciated by the Prime Minister has opened up new doors of opportunities in communication, transportation, trade and business, tourism, cultural exchange, sports, information technology, agriculture etc., to link the Northeast with ASEAN and BBN countries. Likewise, to promote industrialization, the State government has also come up with new policy on tax incentives for setting up industries and tourism units, IT policy, biotech policy, start-up policy, sugar policy, solar energy policy, Assam Industrial Investment Policy etc.

Sonowal urged the graduates of Tezpur University with their innovative ideas, knowledge and skill to join the start-up movement to exploit the market potential of Assam, from which service can be provided to 800 million population spreading across the North Eastern States of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and the ASEAN countries, a press release said.

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