Assam’s cabinet has approved a comprehensive development package featuring a 30 MW solar project with battery storage, a proton beam therapy centre, and expanded industrial and infrastructure initiatives, signalling a major push towards sustainable growth and improved public services.
Assam’s cabinet has approved a wide-ranging spending and infrastructure package that includes a 30 megawatt solar project paired with a 25 megawatt battery storage system, as the state steps up efforts to expand power supply, healthcare and industrial capacity under its “Viksit Assam” push. The meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, also backed a series of administrative and policy changes aimed at easing investment and improving public services.
The energy plan will be developed at Rakhyasini Jungle Block in Goalpara district, while the cabinet also approved the allotment of 1,174 bighas of land in Kamrup Metropolitan and Nagaon districts for industrial estates and land banks. Officials said the measures are intended to support future manufacturing projects and wider industrial expansion across the state.
Healthcare was another major focus. The government cleared the establishment of a proton beam therapy centre in Guwahati under the Assam State Secondary Healthcare Initiative for Service Delivery Transformation, with an estimated cost of Rs. 600 crore. According to Hindustan Times, the unit would make Assam the first state in India to have such treatment in the public sector. The cabinet also notified the Assam Allied and Healthcare Council Rules, 2026.
In a sign of the state’s broader development drive, the cabinet sanctioned Rs. 109.9957 crore for infrastructure work at Gauhati University and approved Rs. 15,598.19 lakh for a road overbridge near Hawaipur railway station, along with a bypass road intended to ease congestion in Lanka town. It also extended the one-time valuation mechanism for tea gardens, a measure that affects stamp duty and registration fees on conveyance deeds.
The cabinet further amended the industrial policy to include registered vehicle scrapping facilities as an eligible activity for incentives, approved a Rs. 300 crore project by Fermbox Bio Private Limited at Tezpur, and scrapped the retail selling licence requirement for petroleum products in a bid to improve the ease of doing business. It also fixed subsidised prices for NFSA ration card holders at Rs. 70 a kilogram for masur dal and Rs. 35 a kilogram for sugar, while confirming that flood relief and welfare payments will continue to be distributed in the coming weeks.
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