CM Baghel: Tea gardens, bamboo industry will benefit from Assam’s expertise

/ Raipur

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Minister Bhupesh Baghel met a delegation of Assam’s industrialists in Jorhat on Monday during his 2-day’s official visit to Assam. He asked them to establish industries based on tea and bamboo for which all assistance and encouragement will be extended, a press release said.

Baghel said Chhattisgarh has an industr y friendlyenvironment. The state has minor forest produce and horticulture crops apart from tea and bamboo. All assistance and benefits will be extended to establish industries, he said.

Bamboo is available abundantly in the forests. Tomatoes are even exported to Pakistan. Jashpur climate is tea friendly and it has a tea garden, he pointed out.

Security men raze 2 camps in Bastar, recover 1,214 spikes in Sukma

Security forces busted 2 Maoist camps in South Bastar and recovered daily use materials, IEDs and other items. In a separate anti-Naxal operation, a huge cache of spikes from Sukma was recovered, a senior police officer said on Monday. A joint team of security forces of District Reserve Guards, Special Task Force, CRPF’s COBRA unit and local police carried out the anti-Maoist operation at the borders of Sukma-Dantewada and Bijapur against the Maoists of Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee and Telangana Special Committee on Sunday, the Bastar police said. In the Peddagulur jungles, an STF jawan Mohan Nag lost his life in IED trigger. HOUSE SECY B’DAY: PALARI JANAPAD CEO SU: The Chhattisgarh government on Monday suspended the chief executive officer (CEO) of a Janpad Panchayat Palari, Balodabazar-Bhatapara district for issuing illegal orders to organise birthday parties of public representatives at government office premises and deploying janpad panchayat and govt employees in the event. ICICI, GOVT SIGN MOU FOR DATA DIGITISATION: The Chhattisgarh government signed an MoU with ICICI Bank for digitalisation of data and information up to village panchayat level across the state. The MoU was signed in presence of state Panchayat Minister TS Singh Deo, Director Panchayat Mohammad Kaisar Abdul Haq and East Zone Chief of ICICI Bank Praveen Trivedi.