Assam is primarily an agricultural State. Agriculture sustains about 72 per cent of its population but only one third of its area is cropped. The plains here are for growing rice, wheat, sugarcane, cotton banana, tobacco etc. On the hills, apart from great potential of growing variety  of fruits, we have colorful orchids and among the commercial crops tea, jute sugarcane cotton and potato and ginger are important. With these favorable...

The Govt. of India, as you are well aware, has for long postulated that any effective system of pest control must necessarily be an integrated system which takes into account all these aspects and must be carried to the fields. Through an efficient and forceful extensions agency. This seminar is therefore, particularly timely and welcome since it concerns itself with two of the most important crops sown in our country, rice...

First of all, I congratulate the Hon’ble finance minister for presenting a very realistic and balanced budget, balanced not in the sense of balancing the receipts and expenditure, but in the sense of looking after all sections of society and all aspects of the economic. Sir, in our country, there is a group of people who call themselves high intellectuals and who always find fault with our budget. These gentlemen every...

Dictation-3 (5 mins) I rise to support the budget placed before this house by the hon’ble finance minister. Our development objectives have been made clear in this budget, which are growth, modernization self reliance and social injustice. For want of time it is difficult to recapitulate the economic progress made during the last one year. Coming to the tax proposals straightaway, even the objectives of the tax proposals have been very...

Besides the direct tax, five per cent surcharge levied on account of drought is proposed to be abolished. This is a very good and a welcome step taken by the hon’ble finance minister. In place of that, he has proposed only eight per cent excess tax on incomes fifty thousand and more by which Rs. 500 crores would be generated which would be spent on Jawaharlal Nehru rojgar yojna. It is...