[Assam] Interactive session on NE development(The Assam Tribune, 30.01.2008)

[Buljit Buragohain]

Interactive session on NE development
By A City Correspondent
 GUWAHATI, Jan 29 – Students of Media and Communication Study Centre of the Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC), Cotton College, members of Friends of Assam and Seven Sisters (FASS), and many others took part in an interactive session recently and exchanged their views. The programme held at the MCSC with the objective of providing inspirational energy and motivational force for the overall revival and development of North East India evoked enthusiastic response from the participants.

It needs mention that FASS is an international non-profit non-governmental organisation claiming its commitment to the cause of enlightenment and empowerment of the North East. The organisation says that it is keen to spread knowledge about this eastern part of the country at the international platform with support and cooperation from the non-resident Indians of the North East.

FASS is also eager to offer a rational and balanced solution to the various problems cropping up in the region over the last few decades. Speaking on the occasion, Ankur Bora, executive vice- chairman of FASS from Texas, USA, highlighted the activities and achievements of the organization. Bora said that FASS was focussing on improving entrepreneurial skills for propelling the State on the road to development and informed that it had adopted Parijat Academy at Guwahati and Pragyalaya at Jorhat with the sole objective of imparting entrepreneurship qualities on the sidelines of education from a tender age. “We appeal to all sections of the society to come forward and lend a hand in the overall economic and cultural development of the people of the North East,” he said.

   
  (The Assam Tribune,30.01.2008)



       
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