Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Sunday felicitated Runjun Pegu of Majuli island, who brought laurels for Assam, by winning gold at the U-20 Girls Javelin Throw in the 1st National Javelin Throw Open Championship in Lucknow.
Chief Minister Sonowal felicitated Runjun during a programme in Jorhat on Sunday in presence of Assam Legislative Assembly Speaker Hitendra Nath Goswami, Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Jorhat MP Kamakhya Prasad Tasa.
Informing about the felicitation of Runjun, the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) on its official Twitter handle on Sunday stated: “CM Sarbanand Sonowal felicitated Runjun Pegu of Majuli, who recently won Gold at U-20 Girls Javelin Throw in the 1st National Javelin Throw Open Championship held in Lucknow recently.”
Runjun Pegu was awarded a certificate and cheque of Rs 1.25 lakh.
CM Shri @sarbanandsonwal felicitated Runjun Pegu of Majuli, who recently won Gold at U-20 Girls Javelin Throw in the 1st National Javelin Throw Open Championship held in Lucknow recently. Pegu was awarded a certificate and cheque of INR 1.25 Lakh. pic.twitter.com/BKc0EynhSP
— Chief Minister Assam (@CMOfficeAssam) September 30, 2018
The CMO in separate tweets stated that in the same programme, Chief Minister Sonowal also laid the foundation stone of ‘Women Trade Centre’ and the 3-Lane Road Overbridge on Jorhat-Titabor Road (Na- Ali) in Jorhat.
To be constructed from the Town Infrastructure Development Fund, the Women Trade Centre is an initiative to make women in the area self-sufficient, it stated.
Regarding the proposed overbridge, it informed that more than Rs 100 crore has been sanctioned for the project.
Under the leadership of PM Shri @narendramodi Ji, special focus is on the connectivity sector of this region. We are looking to take connectivity across roadways, railways, airways, waterways and informationways to the next level: CM pic.twitter.com/qHHiMEVXBr
— Chief Minister Assam (@CMOfficeAssam) September 30, 2018
“The proposed overbridge, to be constructed under North East Special Infrastructure Development Scheme (NESIDS) for which more than Rs 100 crore have been sanctioned,” the CMO tweeted.