Guwahati, May 28 (PTI) The Northeast Frontier Railway will run a special train from Dibrugarh in upper Assam to Yesvantpur for students of the region and north Bengal to write medical and engineering entrance tests in Bengaluru. One examination special train will ply on May one next, N-F Railway chief public relation officer S S Hajong said here today. Another will leave on May seven, while the return 02509 special train will leave Yesvantpur on May seven and reach Dibrugarh on May 10, Hajong said. Every year thousands of students from the region aspiring for medical and engineering careers go to Bengaluru to take joint entrance tests there, Hajong said. PTI SB KK
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Economy of Assam today represents a unique
juxtaposition of backwardness amidst plenty.[1] Growth
rate of Assam’s income has
not kept pace with that of India’s
during the Post-British Era; differences increased rapidly since 1970s.[2] While
the Indian economy grew at 6 percent per annum over the period of 1981 to 2000,
the same of Assam’s
grew only by 3.3 percent.[3] In the
Sixth Plan period Assam
experienced a negative growth rate of 3.78 percent against a growth rate of 6
percent of India’s.[2] In the
post-liberalised era (after 1991), the gaps between growth rates of Assam’s and India’s economy widened further.
In
the current decade, according to recent analysis, Assam’s economy is showing signs of
improvement. In the year 2001-2002, the economy grew in 1993-94 constant prices
at 4.5 percent, falling to 3.4 percent in the next financial year.[4] During
2003-2004 and 2004-2005, in the same constant prices, the economy grew more
satisfactorily at 5.5 and 5.3 percent respectively.[4] The
advanced estimates placed the growth rate for the year 2005-2006 at above 6
percent.[5]
In
the 1950s, soon after the independence, per capita income in
Assam was little higher than
that in India;
it is much lower today. In the year 2000-2001, per capita income in Assam was INR 6,157 at
constant prices (1993-94) and INR 10,198 at current prices, which is almost 40
percent lower than that in India.[6] According
to the recent estimates,[5] per
capita income in Assam at 1993-94 constant prices has reached INR 6520 in
2003-2004 and INR 6756 in 2004-2005, which is still much lower than the same of
India.
