Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today held a meeting at Brahmaputra State Guest House to discuss the issues of providing employment opportunities to the state's people returning from outside.

Key decisions:

1)Chief Minister directed the P&RD department to allot job cards to returningmigrant workers and provide them works under MGNREGA at the earliest. 

2)The Chief Minister also directed the Skill Development Department to take stepsfor imparting training to returning workers for upgrading their skills.

3) He issued an instruction to identify skills of the returning laborers and provide training at development block level through a digital platform.

4)The Chief Minister also directed the Industries Department to prepare districtwise list of MSMEs for providing benefits to the sector under Rs 20 lakh croreeconomic package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

5)He instructed the Finance Department to discuss with the banks about ways toprovide bank loans to returning labourers for engaging them in productivesectors.

6)Industries and Commerce Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary, P&RD Minister NabaKumar Doley, Media Advisor to the Chief Minister Hrishikesh Goswami, LegalAdvisor to the Chief Minister Santanu Bharali along with top officials ofvarious departments were present in the meeting.