Two plots of land in Dhubri and Goalpara have been recognized for setting up a 3,000-MW thermal power project, with basis for it doubtless to be laid by November, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated.
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He stated although the State authorities was mulling establishing the project in Kokrajhar to guarantee better advantages for the district, it’s unlikely to push for it as a piece of individuals has blamed the dispensation of “trying to take away tribal land”.
“This 3,000-MW thermal power project will be coming up in our state. A sum of ₹40,000 crore will be spent on it and the tender will be issued soon,” Mr. Sarma stated at a press convention right here on Sunday.
He stated the Assam authorities had mooted allocating the project to Kokrajhar in order that it could actually reap advantages of a serious funding, which is about to create one lakh direct and oblique employment alternatives.
“The ₹26,000-crore semiconductor unit (of the Tata Group) is coming up in Jagiroad. We thought that a project of similar investment should come to Kokrajhar, too,” Sarma stated.
“But, we don’t want to go ahead with it by taking the blame that we are after tribal land,” the CM stated, referring to criticism in some sections that the federal government was “plotting to hand over” tribal land to corporates.
He stated two plots of land in Dhubri and Goalpara districts have been recognized for the project.
Sarma claimed that the “4,000-bigha” plot thought-about for the project in Kokrajhar district is below the possession of “only 80 families”.
“The land may not be given for the power project, but I think it is not correct for only a few people to have possession of so much land. Some institution like a hospital or a college can come up there,” he added.
