Assam to have MBBS & BDS quotas for Bhutan students

 STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The Cabinet has adopted an outline of the hospitality that the State Government will offer to Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk during his two-day visit to the state beginning November 3.

Briefing the Cabinet at its first meeting in the new CM’s Secretariat, Lok Sewa Bhawan, Tourism Minister Jayanta Mallabaruah said, “That the Bhutan King visiting Assam is significant in many sectors, especially insofar as tourism is concerned. The visit of the king of a neighbouring state is a matter of pride for us. As a goodwill gesture, the Cabinet has decided to reserve five seats—three for MBBS and two for BDS—in the medical colleges of the state for students from Bhutan. The reservation of the three MBBS seats will be at the Nalbari Medical College and the Barpeta Medical College.”

The other cabinet decisions include the giving away of the Anundoram Borooah Award, the Banikanta Kakati Award, amendments to the Private Security Agency Rules, etc.

Mallabbaruah said, “On November 29, we will give away the Anundoram Borooah Award to 27,183 HSLC-passed students with above 75 percent marks for the purchase of computer sets. Each of such students will get Rs 15,000 deposited in his or her account. On November 30 and December 1, as many as 35,776 students will get Scooty under the Banikanta Kakati Award.”

Mallabaruah further said, “The Cabinet also decided to amend the rules of the Private Security Agency Act, 2008, to monitor the entire activities of private securities, like their recruitment, arms training, and other facilities, to make them in sync with the rules of the Central Government.”

The bond for one-year rural health service is to be fixed at Rs 30 lakh as compensation to the State Government for non-compliance.

The Cabinet decided to fix the forest royalty at 0.6 percent of the total project cost when utilising minor minerals in a public water supply scheme under JJM (Jal Jeevan Mission).

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