He said the two projects were important for the value addition they would achieve for natural raw materials and for the employment opportunities they would create for the youth of Assam.
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Assam Police sources said two firing incidents rocked the district – one aimed at former Congress MLA Durga Bhumij’s residence in Doomdooma.
Then prime minister Manmohan Singh had laid the foundation for the Rs.10,00 crore project at Lepetkata in 2007.
A day before of Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit to Assam, a newly floated militant group had opened fire in Upper Assam on Wednesday night and threaten to the tea tribes people to leave the state immediately.
“But, I sometime feel it is my good fortune to do all these good work (inaugurating projects started previously)”, he said.
He said, the projects inaugurated today offer enormous employment opportunities to the people of Assam.
Slamming the Congress Government for neglecting the state’s tea workers, he hit out at the Congress for not implementing the existing laws for their security.
The prime minister, who arrived in Assam on Friday, headed straight to Dibrugarh for the inauguration of the Assam Gas Cracker Project and a wax producing unit at the Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) in Golaghat district.
The prime minister said that as part of the new development model, strengthening the North East’s railway infrastructure was the first step.
The gas cracker project, executed by the Brahmaputra Crackers and Polymers Ltd., has missed several deadlines.
He said rapid industrial development of the country is necessary to create employment for India’s youth.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a three-day visit to Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha from February 5 to 7.
“Without naming them, the Prime Minister said “one family” was responsible for the disruptions in Parliament that have stalled important legislative business and reforms and said he wondered if they were exacting “revenge” for their defeat in the national election of 2014″.
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He said employment opportunities had to be created not just in big cities but in smaller towns, too.
