Stating this at a press conference here, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said the plan to be implemented within the next ten years will accord highest priority in the field of education and creating employment opportunities.
A unversity of international standards will be set up near Guwahati and the government was in the process of acquiring a 700 acres of land, he said.
The other focus areas of the action plan will be agriculture, irrigation and power, the chief minister said.
Setting up of food processing units will be the priority while effort will be made to hasten the commissioning of the power projects to ease the current power crisis in the state, Gogoi said.
While the peak-hour demand in 2001 was 300 Mw now it is 830 Mw and thus efforts are on to increase power production to meet the growing demand, he said.
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He said the government had decided to set up both rural and urban infrastructure development authority to improve connectivity in the next ten years.
"The growing demand for power itself signifies that the state is on the path of development", he said.