Darrang's Guardian Minister Patowary Fixes Rates for Ambulances, End to Fleecing Patients

Mangaldoi: Darrang district's Guardian Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary said that among a series of important decisions, he has fixed the rates that ambulances can charge while ferrying patients anywhere in the district.

"Ambulances were charging arbitrarily, charging high fares and harassing patients. We have put a stop to it. The rates have been fixed," the minister who is Assam's Cabinet Minister for Transport, Industry and Commerce, Skill Development and Minorities Welfare said.

Talking about the development of the district, the Minister who was a day's visit to district headquarters Mangaldoi on Tuesday, June 1 said that a vision document would be ready in one month's time to develop the district as one of the more advanced and developed districts of Assam. He held a meeting with Deputy Commissioner Prabhati Thowsen and other senior officials of the district.

Briefing the media after the meeting, Minister Patowary said that the vision document will list out what all needs to be done to make the district more progressive and advanced.

"The vision document will chart out what needs to be done. Whether roads, bridges and embankments are needed or other infrastructure is needed. In a month the document will be ready. The main purpose of having Guardian Ministers is to develop each district better, it is for the all-round development of every district. Honourable CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has made each one of us Guardian Ministers for one, two or three districts of Assam," Patowary said.

Patowary who was accompanied by MP Dilip Saikia and MLAs of the four constituencies of the district – Dr Paramananda Rajbonshi of Sipajhar, Basanta Das of Mangaldoi, Durgadas Boro of Kalaigaon and Majibur Rehman of Dalgaon took stock of the COVID situation in the district and availability of medical facilities, flood preparedness, food stock and relief material availability. The Minister also directed the district administration to be in constant touch with the Chambers of Commerce to ensure that prices of essential are kept under control and there is no price rise.

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