Guwahati, The Assam government will invest ₹ 50,000 crore over the next five years to develop infrastructure across sectors, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
“The state cabinet has approved pumping in ₹ 50,000 crore for ‘Viksit Assam: Infra Vision’. Sarma said the cabinet also approved allotment of 1,174 bighas of land in Kamrup Metropolitan and Nagaon districts to the Industries, Commerce and Public Enterprises Department for developing industrial estates and land banks.
Under this scheme, we will be developing various infrastructures across the state,” he said. Addressing a press conference after a state cabinet meeting here on Sunday, Sarma said the investment would cover primary healthcare, schools, anganwadi centres, housing for tea garden workers, power, roads, women markets and hostels, besides flood embankments.
The government will also allot 27 bighas in Rangajan Gaon in Dhemaji district to the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department for setting up a milk project, he said. The CM said that to improve the ease of doing business, the cabinet approved the Assam Trade Articles Order, 2026, abolishing the requirement of retail selling licences for petroleum products.
The cabinet extended the one-time window for determining the market value of tea gardens or tea land for calculating stamp duty and registration fees on conveyance deeds, along with the one-time SOP valuation mechanism, he said. “The state government will provide the initial relief of ₹ 15,000 to the remaining flood-affected families on September 1,” he said.
