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Assam’s handicrafts need to be marketed to obtain high prices for them

Revival of forestry and wood industries requires development of plans for sustainable use of
forests. Innovative actions may be needed to implement them

Assam and North-East have a vast potential for tourism and should be made a tourist hot-spot
like Kerala has become

It should be possible to increase fish production by 40000 tonnes a year in the next five years
indicating a growth rate of 6 per cent per year.

Agricultural growth can be stepped up with a continued emphasis on shallow tubewells,
formation of village development councils, development of rural roads and establishments of
organized markets.

Such decentralized development is less likely to be a victim of extortions

A strategy of development led by many small entrepreneurs and initiatives all over the state
is more likely to succeed, where young people and women clearly perceive that something is
happening all around them and that the future holds out a lot of promise

Attractive new opportunity has opened up for service-based development due to the ICT
revolution.

The stage is set for Assam to take off. The implementation of the package announced by
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will give a big thrust to the region’s economy

A right to information should be given to the people through an Act, so that local bodies
function in a transparent manner.