Assam chief minister, Sarbananda Sonowal on Friday said that his government took special initiatives to usher in development in different districts of the state.

He was in Bongaigaon on Friday to lay the foundation stone of six new projects under the City Infrastructure Development Fund (CIDF).

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The chief minister said, โ€œThe previous government took no initiative for the empowerment of the far-flung areas of the state.โ€

โ€œOur government took special initiatives for the development of Bongaion and the other seventeen districts under CIDF,โ€ he added.

The projects include the development of an ecological park and its adjacent water bodies, a museum on Koch Rajbongshis, beautification of the immersion ghat and construction of a bus terminal and clock tower..

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Sonowal also distributed tractors and power tillers to the beneficiaries under the โ€œChief Ministerโ€™s Sammagra Grammya Unnayan Yojanaโ€.

He also distributed kits under โ€œPM CARESโ€ to persons who came back to the state during the Covid-19 induced lockdown.

He also called upon the people and the media to keep a watch on his governmentโ€™s performance and cooperate with it to accelerate development in the state.

A report of โ€œProject Milijuliโ€, a comprehensive Covid-19 community management initiative of the Bongaigaon district administration was released on the occasion.

The logo of โ€œMission Sampoornaโ€, a district administration initiative to make Bongaigaon free from malnutrition was also unveiled.