Air connectivity between Agartala and Chittagong will be started very soon. The air service will be thrice a week. For this, the state government has to bear a maximum expenditure of Rs. 15 crore annually as viability gap funding.
As far as the fare is concerned, Rs. 4500 will be the airfare per passenger, the Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Sushanta Chowdhury informed the media about the cabinet decision at a press meeting at the state secretariat on Tuesday (August 23).
Giving further details about the cabinet decisions today the ICA minister said, 19 more RD sub-division, four RD circles, and six RD working divisions will be created to speed up the work of the rural development department.
The ICA minister also informed the media that 300 advanced education centres would be launched to impart quality education to the students of lower kindergarten to fifth standard level across the state under the aegis of tribal welfare department.
But each such centre should have at least 15 students. Teachers engaged in these centres will get remuneration at the rate of Rs. 215 per day with a ceiling of 25 days of teaching per month. Teachers will be appointed on the basis of their qualifications. These centres will be particularly opened in villages with the criterion of not more than three centres per village.
The ICA minister told the media, 6,000 street children will be identified from across the state and they will be distributed among different orphanages. The social welfare and social education department, in consultation with the Child Welfare Committee, will take measures for their upbringing.
It was also decided by the state cabinet that within the next few months these children will be given Rs. 4000 stipends every month. He also said that there are 41 orphanages in the state wherein 843 children are sheltered and they will also be entitled to this benefit.
The ICA minister said, the state government has decided to allot 50 acres of land in Mohanpur sub-division to the Indian Institute of Information Technology, for which the state government will allow an exemption of Rs. 1.50 crore as their premium.
He said, since the present chief minister Prof. (Dr.) Manik Saha took over, a target has been set to implement 245 works under 46 departments. By August 31, 2022, 166 targets out of that will be fulfilled which accounts for 63.33 per cent success. Rest will be completed by September, 2022, which will mark 93.30 per cent success.
