To neutralise insurgency and Maoist activities in his state, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has asked for peoples-friendly low-cost technologies instead of more central forces to give a face-lift to the state's cottage industry based on indigenous raw materials and revolutionise the farm sector.
"The basic cause behind insurgency and Maoists activities or naxalism is frustration over lack of livelihood options. So we need to create jobs or source of income for youth in backward areas to prevent them from going astray. It is not true only in case of Assam but for the whole of the country," Gogoi said.
Wiser from the experience of tackling insurgency for over a decade as the chief minister of Assam, Gogoi on Saturday cautioned