In an attempt to bring in welfare of tea tribe communities in the agenda of priorities and expedite their development, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal asked the Directorate for Welfare of Tea tribes, Assam to re-activate and strengthen skill development centres in the tea garden areas.
Chairing a meeting at the conference room of his office in Janata Bhawan on Tuesday, Chief Minister Sonowal while reviewing the schemes for the welfare of tea tribe communities in the State, said that the skill development centres in 19 tea garden districts in the State need to be strengthened to render skill development training to the youth.
“Enabling the skill centres to live up to their mandate will not only hone the income generating faculty of the youth, but also increase their employability”, Sonowal attributed.
The CM at the same time asked the Tea Tribe Welfare Department to achieve complete target of the schemes like Smart Phone to line sardars in tea gardens, pre-metric scholarship to tea gardens, post metric scholarship, construction of patient guest house at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH).
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