STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: While presenting the Annual Budget for the financial year 2019-20, the Assam government announced a subsidy on mess dues of the boarders in hostels in government/provincialised colleges and State universities. A subsidy of Rs 700 per student every month was to be paid for 10 months in a year. The Director of Higher Education, Assam intimated the Registrars of Gauhati University, Dibrugarh University, Bodoland University, KBVS University, Cotton University, Rabindranath Tagore University, Madhabdev University, Bhattadev University, and the principals of all government/ provincialised colleges in Assam about the implementation of the subsidy.