Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a day-long visit to the state on April 14, will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of several projects with an estimated cost of nearly Rs 8,500 crore.
GUWAHATI: The Himanta Biswa Sarma-led Assam government will host a mega event to celebrate the upcoming Rongali Bihu where 11,000 dancers will perform in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on April 14, officials said. The spectacle, expected to be the largest in the Northeast in terms of the congregation of more than 10,000 Bihu dancers, may make an entry into the Guinness Book of World Records. Besides the prime minister, invitations for the event, to be held in Guwahati’s Sarusajai indoor stadium, are being extended to all governors, chief ministers, union ministers, diplomats of G20 member nations and ASEAN countries and other dignitaries. Chief Minister Sarma is closely monitoring the preparations for the function to make it a roaring success. “The chief minister has been monitoring the preparations to the minutest details so that Bihu, the lifeline of Assamese culture, is known to the whole world,” said a senior state government official privy to the d
The Himanta Biswa Sarma-led Assam government has spent Rs 130.59 crore in advertisements during the last two years, while his predecessor Sarbananda Sonowal government spent Rs 125.6 crore in its entire five year tenure, a minister said on Wednesday.