Published on : 04 Nov 2025, 3:26 am

Staff Reporter

Guwahati: Union Minister for Communication and DoNER, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, laid the foundation stones for several development projects worth Rs 635 crores across Assam. Apart from this, the Union Minister also inaugurated the North Eastern Science & Technology (NEST) Cluster in IIT Guwahati today.

The proposed projects include infrastructure development of 65 new secondary school buildings at a cost of Rs 455 crore, upgrading of the Chaygaon-Ukiam road at a cost of Rs 102 crore and construction of an RCC bridge estimated to cost Rs 20.59 crore at Silonijan-Dhansiri Parghat. He also proposed a project to develop industrial estates costing Rs 32.80 crore at Kokrajhar and Baksa.

Speaking on the occasion, Scindia described Assam

See Full Page