Assam CM holds discussion with TATA group on upgradation of State’s ITIs and polytechnics

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma held discussion senior executives of TATA group on upgradation of State’s ITIs and polytechnics to Centres of Excellence.

Sarma thanked TATA group for coming forward to transform technical institutes of Assam to technology hubs with their innovative project ‘Transforming Engineering Academia to Industry 4.0’. After the detailed presentation from TATA group, Sarma asked them for certain changes and to add a few more components to their project.

He assured that Government of Assam will provide required space and all other support to introduce State of the Art curriculum in all 75 technical institutes of the State where more than 9000 students will get trained simultaneously while equipping themselves with latest engineering skills.


He also called on Tata group to take steps for providing scholarships to trainees, employing experienced teachers and instructors from Tata group in the institutions for 5 years, training the local instructors etc.

The Chief Minister assured of providing all logistical support to Tata group for successful implementation of the project. He asked Education Department to draft the MoU and arrange for its signing ceremony at an early date.

Sarma held a meeting with the officials of Housing & Urban Affairs Department, GMDA and GMC to discuss about various urban development initiatives including building construction bye-laws, transport and mobility plan for Guwahati city, waste disposal plan and Brahmaputra Riverfront Development project at Janata Bhawan.

After a comprehensive discussion on different proposed initiatives to achieve state government's goal of ensuring ease of living for the residents of the city, several key decisions were taken.

After going through the presentations on the initiatives, the Chief Minister directed the Housing & Urban Affairs Department to adopt common building bye-laws for the entire state under Mukhyamantrir Sahaj Griha Nirman Achoni. Dr. Sarma asked to introduce web portal based permission for building construction. The system will be run centrally, however, revenue will be accrued by the local urban bodies, he said. To eliminate all sorts of malpractice while issuing building permission, the Chief Minister directed to mandatorily conduct 10% sample verification against the permissions issued for building construction.

The Chief Minister also discussed the ways and means to check overlapping roles impacting optimum resource utilization and accountability as well as mechanism of a multi-modal and integrated transport system for the city. To align with the state government's visions to introduce a multi-modal transport system benefitting the citizens, overall mechanism and operational strategy of Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority for the city along with a comprehensive mobility plan and improvement of city bus service were also discussed in the meeting.

During the course of the meeting, discussions were also held on the implementation of Brahmaputra Riverfront Development project.