PM gives land certificates to 1L families in Assam

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, January 23

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday distributed land allotment certificates to one lakh native families of Sivasagar in election-bound Assam, saying the allotments would assure them lives of dignity.

The PM said with indigenous landless people getting the right to land, a “major concern of their lives had been erased”.

He hailed Sivasagar for the sacrifices it has made for the country and announced that the Centre was working to include Sivasagar in the five most important archaeological sites nationally.

Invoking legendary Bhupen Hazarika, the PM drove home the importance of owning land.

He lamented that decades after independence, lakhs of families in Assam were deprived of land.

The PM said steps had been taken to encourage Assamese language and literature and efforts made to preserve historical objects of religious and spiritual importance, besides addressing encroachment and improving the Kaziranga National Park.