Assam welcomes infra push but awaits jobs
Business Standard|April 19, 2024
Popular as "tea city", which also houses independent India's first oil field, there is something else brewing in Assam's Dibrugarh: discontent among its youth.
NITIN KUMAR
Assam welcomes infra push but awaits jobs

Most of the young residents are voicing their frustration over lack of jobs, despite the rapid infrastructure growth in and around Dibrugarh.

"Only roads are being constructed here, not industries. Locals do not even get contracts these days. Like the majority of the tea plantation workers, all other jobs and contracts are going to outsiders," says Minral Hazarika, a 30-year-old resident of Mohanbari in Dibrugarh district.

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