Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday presented Union budget 2021. The FM announced many schemes for the welfare of the northeastern states. The North Eastern Council of CII said that various provisions of the Union Budget would boost the road and health infrastructure of the region, besides improving the tea industry.

CII NE Council, Abhijit Barooah, said that there were many good news in the Budget and many of CII’s recommendations were accepted in the Budget proposals. He said there is a provision of Rs 1,000 crore for the tea industry workers of Assam and West Bengal.Barooah further said that the road sector in Assam would be improved with a promised expenditure of Rs 34,000 crore to construct 1,300 km of national highway network over the next three years.

The Tea Association of India (TAI), the apex body of tea garden owners, is optimistic about the Budget proposals. TAI said the emphasis on the ‘health and well being’ and ‘reinvigorating human capital’ that has been highlighted as the six pillars of the Budget-2021 proposals, would prove to be all-inclusive, and the industry would benefit from these.  Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday als ermed the Union as pragmatic, people-friendly and development-oriented. The Assam CM thanked the Centre for the allocation of Rs 34,000 crore in the budget for the construction of more than 1,300 kms of national highways in the state in the next three years.

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