Updated: Monday, February 22, 2021, 19:44 [IST]
Dhemaji (Assam), Feb 22: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday said that it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who ensured that Assam gets its due of Rs 6,000 crore oil royalty which the earlier Manmohan Singh-led UPA government had failed to give to the state.
Pradhan, speaking at the function where the prime minister dedicated three projects of his ministry worth Rs 3,222 crore to the nation, said that Singh not only refused to pay the royalty to Gujarat when Modiji was the chief minister but also did not to give it to Assam which he represented in the Rajya Sabha. We can understand his antagonism towards the Modi-led Gujarat government. But why did he deprive the state he represents? he said.
PM launches 5 mega projects in Assam worth Rs 3,222 crore
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Image Source: IANS News
Guwahati, Feb 22 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday dedicated to the nation Rs 3,222 crore five mega gas and oil based projects and education in Assam.
While speaking at an impressive public gathering at Silapathar in eastern Assam s Dhemaji district, the Prime Minister said that the Centre and Assam government are working together for the all-round development of the state and maximum welfare of the people. Asserting the need to continue with the double engine of Centre and state government to expedite development in Assam, he said : The Assam government is taking forward all sectors and would soon implement the national education policy whereby the local people will be able to get medical and engineering education in the local language.
India News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Assam and West Bengal on Monday to lay foundation stones of several projects in the states. "Leaving for
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
GUWAHATI: PM Narendra Modi on Monday on his third visit in one month to poll-bound Assam at Dhemaji, dedicated three energy infrastructure in the state worth over Rs 3,000 crore to the nation.
Modi also inaugurated the state’s seventh engineering college at Dhemaji and laid the foundation for the construction of eight engineering college of the state at Sualkuchi near Guwahati remotely from Dhemaji.
The energy infrastructure projects included the Rs 2,600-crore INDMAX fluid catalytic cracking unit at IOC’s Bongaigaon refinery, which will boost high-yield of petroleum products from an array of petroleum fractions, the Rs 490-crore Secondary Tank Farm with Dehydration Facility and Effluent Treatment Plant of Oil India Limited at Madhuban in Dibrugarh district and the Rs 132-crore gas compressor station at Makum.