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THE government of India has awarded the first ever industrial growth centr& in Assam to the district of Sonitpur. An amount of Rs 50 lakh has recently been sanctioned by the Union ministry of industry, out of which there will be a total capital outlay of Rs 30 crore for the entire peoject to be developed and completed during the Ninth Five Year plan at the Balipara development block in the district.

Iswar Prasanna Hazarika, member of Parliament, announced that already 1,500 bighas (bigha is a measurement of land varying locally from 1/8 to 2/5 of a hectare) of land have been handed over to the state for the industrial growth centre.,According to Hazarika, the proposed Lntr@e would greatly benefit and brighte4,the prospect of industrialisation in this backward region on the north bank of the Brahmaputra.

The centre would have all kinds of provisions required to set up various small and medium industries in the complex, besides arranging for provisions to assist in the preparation of investment and project proposals, infrastructural facilities and the like needed by the units.

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