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The Assam government, which had decided to discontinue mandatory Covid testing for all flight and train passengers from March 1, has not changed its plan even as new variants of the novel coronavirus have emerged across the country.
Over 65% of the healthcare workers in Assam, eligible for the second shot of the Covid vaccine, got the jab by Thursday. The inoculation drive for the second dose started in the state on February 13.
Chhattisgarh chief minister and Congress observer for the assembly election in Assam, Bhupesh Baghel, who is campaigning in the state, said on Wednesday night that the BJP is seeking votes in the name of the ‘holy cow’ but their government here is allowing the cow trade to flourish with neighbouring Bangladesh.
PM Narendra Modi on Thursday virtually kicked off multiple road, water and digital connectivity projects worth Rs 9,500 crore in poll-bound Assam, which includes work on inland waterways, for an alternative connect with the northeast to reduce the region’s dependence on the strategically vital chicken’s neck or the Siliguri corridor.
The four Ro-Pax vessels made operational in Assam by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday are named after India’s illustrious children — a Jewish general of the Indian Army who converted a ceasefire into a total surrender of the Pakistani army during Bangladesh’s liberation war of 1971, a Naga freedom fighter who led a revolt against the British rule, a legendary Hindi film music composer and an Army officer of the region, who established India’s administrative authority over Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh in 1951.