Guwahati, Jan. 2 -- Under the Mukhya Mantri Manhila Udyamita Abhiyan (MMUA), Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday distributed cheques of Rs 10,000 each to 30,655 enterprising women of the Borsola Assembly Constituency in Sonitpur district.

Under the same programme, he also handed over seed capital to 39,701 women in the Sipajhar Assembly Constituency in Darrang district. Under this distribution, entrepreneurship funds have so far been disbursed to 14,46,021 women across 62 Assembly Constituencies in the state under MMUA.

Chief Minister Sarma also virtually laid the foundation stone for a Super Speciality Hospital to be constructed at the Tezpur Medical College and Hospital campus, involving a project cost of Rs. 306 crore....