Speaking at a community mass marriage at Tyag Kshetra here, the chief minister said that this community mass marriage was a step towards collective efforts for the betterment of the state.
The initiative would send across a positive message to the people of the state, he said.
Wishing the married couples, Sonowal said that the state government would always extend assistance to such initiatives.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, who also attended the mass wedding, said that the social mores and customs of Uttarakhand and Assam have many things in common.
In the mass wedding organised by Hindu Tea Tribe Cultural Protection Council and Sewa Bharati Purbanchal, Sewaon, 995 couples entered their conjugal life.