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.
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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
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— 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.