A team of officials from different Central Government Ministries is on a week-long visit to Dhalai district. On an exposure visit to the aspirational district, the officials held discussions with the district administration led by the district magistrate Siddharth Jaiswal and discussed various centrally sponsored schemes, particularly the PM Awas Yojana and MNREGA.
The team has also discussed welfare schemes for the tea workers.
The team comprising Shailesh Kumar Sharma, Deepak Kumar Sinha, Shiv Kumar Mishra, Kumar Sundaram, Shakti Singh and Prashant Rana will also visit different project sites and areas to see the instances of remarkable implementation of schemes in the district.
The officials will also take a view of the beneficiaries on the experience and benefits of schemes. A district official said that the team arrived on Tuesday.
Drugs worth Rs 9 crore seized in Assam, two peddlers from Manipur arrested
The Special Task Force (STF) of Assam Police on Tuesday seized over 1.128 kg of heroin worth Rs nine crore and arrested two drug peddlers from Manipur, officials said.