Assam targets 4% growht rate

  • 06/05/2003

  • Business Line (New Delhi)

Assam has set a target of four to five per cent growth rate for the next Five-Year Plan period despite the near bankruptcy of the State Exchequer. "Although the Planning Commission had set a 6.2% growth rate target but the current funds allocation, the State could achieve anything between 4.4 to 5%, " the Assam Chief Minister, Mr Tarun Gogoi, told.