সাম্প্ৰতিক সময়ছোৱাত - ৰাজ্যৰ প্ৰচুৰ সম্ভাৱনাময় ক্ষেত্ৰসমূহ

Apart from creating a facilitating environment that
promotes private initiative and supports participatory development, it needs to provide social
services, infrastructure and good governance.

Government has important role to play

. Apart from growth of economic activities, development requires social development too.
Another chapter deals with poverty and social development.

All these developments require resources. How much is needed? What is the prospect of
raising them? To explore these, one chapter deals with macro scenarios of economic
development, and shows that a 6 per cent growth rate is within reach of Assam.

What prospects are there for making it a major growth industry? In the first phase
Assam should concentrate on developing domestic tourism. Indians travel a lot and Assam
and North-East should be made a tourist hot-spot like Kerala has become.

How can one develop it? What is
missing? Is it just insurgency? If so, we should emphasize that no tourist has been harmed by
insurgents.

The rivers, forests and mountains provide scope for adventure and ecotourism. Tourism in the North-East should be booming.

North-East has also unique cultural
and ethnic diversity.

Assam has wildlife and bio-diversity with two sites that are
recognized by the UN as Ramsar sites, that is, wetlands that are unique, rare or representative
and internationally important to preserve biodiversity

There are more than 1000 tea gardens, many with guesthouses, some with golfcourses, air strips and helipads