Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, July 26: The first-ever Bamboo Industrial Park will be set-up in Northeast, in Dima Hasao district of Assam. This unique project will be a part of the ‘first 100 days agenda’ of the Modi Government 2.0 and it will come up in an area of 75 hectares, at a cost of Rs.50 crores.
This was announced here today by Union DoNER Minister Dr Jitendra Singh after conducting the monthly review of the working of the Ministry of Northeast and the North Eastern Council (NEC).
Dr Jitendra Singh further informed that the scheduled timeline laid down for completing the first-ever Bamboo Industrial Park was March 2021. In addition, he also informed that an additional Rs.100 crore has been sanctioned by North-Eastern Council for another Bamboo Park in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.
Dr Jitendra Singh recalled that the Modi Government, in its first five year term, took a historic decision of amending the 100 year old Indian Forest Act of 1919, wherein home-grown bamboo was exempted from this Act. This, he said, has paved the way for bamboo being utilized in a big way as a source of livelihood, self-employment and entrepreneurship and the new Bamboo Industrial Parks being planned will reinforce the bamboo-related trade and industry.
The Minister was also informed that in the first 100 days of the Government’s second term, the Ministry of Northeast / DoNER will operationalize 200 projects worth Rs.3000 crores, which in other words, means on an average two projects for Rs.30 crore per day. He was also informed that Rs.1231.94 crores has already been sanctioned by the Ministry for various new and ongoing projects.
During the meeting, Dr Jitendra Singh was also took an update of the important projects included in the ‘first 100 days of action plan’. These, for example, included four important inter-State roads between Nagaland and Assam and also construction of inst-State roads between Meghalaya and Assam under the North East Road Sector Development Scheme (NERSDS). Similarly, under the North East Special Infrastructure Development Scheme (NESIDS), two projects worth Rs. 48.32 crores have been sanctioned for Tripura.
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