Assam: Gogoi announces new scheme for rural youths

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today announced that his government would launch a new Rural Employment Generation Scheme to generate employment opportunities for rural youths. The scheme would help more beneficiaries can avail the scheme and become economically independent, he said at a credit disbursement programme for self employment of women and youth under the Jeevan Jyoti Swaniojan Yojana.[caption id=“attachment_663117” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. AFP[/caption] He stressed the need for skill development training to women and youth for undertaking productive income generating activities like carpentry, masonry, plumbing, food processing and floriculture. The chief minister said the government will send selected youths and women to Bangkok, Malaysia and Singapore for specialised training. It was also planning to set up a training centre for skill development in every district and also in every development block, he said. The banks are coming forward to extend loan facility to rural youths and the institutional credit support would get further boost if more bank branches come up in the rural areas, he said. Minister for Panchayat and Rural Development Rakibul Hussain said there has been a sea change in the rural areas during the last twelve years of the Tarun Gogoi-led Congress government. PTI