Guwahati (The Stellar News): Following up on the announcement made by Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal during the flagging off program of 20 Bharat Benz buses held on 6 November in the city, the Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC) has donated a fully air conditioned Bharat Benz bus for transporting cancer patients from Assam Bhawan in Mumbai to Tata Memorial Hospital and other cancer treatment centres located there. In view of large number of cancer patients from the State visiting Mumbai for advanced oncological treatment, Sonowal asked the ASTC to start bus service in Mumbai for facilitating their conveyance from Assam Bhawan to the hospitals.
The bus service, which inaugurated by ASTC chairman Ashok Kumar Bhattarai in presence of various dignitaries, will be run free of cost and maintained by Deepsikha Foundation. Meanwhile, Sonowal today dedicated the newly built Thingkhang police station, constructed under the mission for overall improvement of thana for responsive image involving a financial outlay of Rs 1.71 crore, to the service of people. Speaking on the occasion, Sonowal said that Thingkhang police atation has been refurbished, strengthened and re-built in a new form to help the police personnel to work for the local people.
In response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call on the need of smart police forces during his speech in the conference of the DGPs in Guwahati, Sonowal stated that the government deemed it its duty to bring about infrastructural development of the police stations across the State. Consequently, in the first budget, the government made budgetary allocations for the modernization of 344 police stations across Assam.
