ASSAM

PRESENTED BY :- MURALI.S

INTRODUCTIONEstablished 15 August 1947 (65 years ago)

Capital Dispur

Largest city Guwahati

Districts 27

Population (2011)

 • Total 31,205,576

 • Rank 14th

 • Density 398/km2 (1,000/sq mi)

INTRODUCTION Total area of Assam is 78,438 square kilometers in census

2011.

Total Population of Assam is 31,205,576 as per census

2011.

1.Male :- 15,939,443.

2.Female :- 15,266,133.

Square Kilometer : Average density of Assam is 398 per

sq. km.

Female Sex ratio of Assam is 958 females per 1000 males.

Population growth rate of Assam was 17.07 percent

during the 2001-2011 period.

Average literacy rate of Assam is 72.19 percent.

1.Male :- 77.85 percent.

2,Female :-63.00 percent.

→ The state is a gateway to Northeast India. Guwahati is the largest city of the state.

→ Assam is known for its tea, petroleum resources, and bio-diversity.

→ Assam is becoming an increasingly popular destination for wild-life tourism. Kaziranga National Park and Manas National Park are registered as world-heritage sites.

→ Assam is located in the Northeast of India. The state shares its borders with Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Tripura and West Bengal.

→ The state shares international borders with Bangladesh and the Kingdom of Bhutan.

→ Assamese and Bodo are the official languages.

Assam

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2010-11

2011-12

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Economic Snapshot – GSDP

At current prices, the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) of Assam was US$ 24.0 billion in 2011-12.

The average annual GSDP growth rate was 10.6 per cent from 2004-05 to 2011-12.

Assam’s GSDP

US$ billion

CAGR10.6%

2004-05

2005-06

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422.5470.4 494.4

603.2 595.3651.2

750.5 781.8

Economic Snapshot – Per Capita GSDP

US$

CAGR9.1%

Advantages

• Pro-active administrative set up.• Simple and transparent procedures for

investment.• Skilled and educated labour force.• Rich natural resource base.• Diversified agricultural and industrial set up.• Efficient transportation and communication

network.• water and power supply.• Rich varieties of flora, fauna and various

horticultural produce.• Large consumer base.

Agriculture and HorticultureTea IndustryOil IndustryMineralsTourismInland Waterways

Economic Snapshot – Percentage Distribution of GSDP

Percentage Distribution of GSDP

2004-05 2011-120

102030405060708090

100

34.3 34.2

18.8 17.0

46.9 48.8

Primary Sector Secondary Sector Tertiary Sector

Economic Snapshot – FDI Inflows & Investments

Break up of Outstanding Investments by Sector (2011-12)

36.0%

33.9%

16.3%

10.1%

3.5% 0.2%

Services Manufacturing

Electricity Mining

Irrigation Real Estate

→ Assam has an international airport at Guwahati known as Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport.

→ The Airport Authority of India plans to make Guwahati Airport as one of the major international airports of India, connecting Southeast Asia with India.

→ The state also has six domestic airports, at Guwahati, Tezpur, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Silchar and North Lakhimpur.

→ Guwahati Airport received 2.2 million passengers during 2011-12.

Physical Infrastructure – Airports

International airportDomestic airport

Guwahati

Silchar

Jorhat

Lakhimpur

Tezpur

Dibrugarh

→ Assam’s major river routes are the Brahmaputra and the Barak rivers, with a combined navigable length of around 1,000 km.

→ Seven port locations are operational in the state for import and export to the Kolkata and Haldia ports.

→ The river Brahmaputra is known as the National Waterway No 2 (The Ganges is known as the National Waterway No 1).

→ The Directorate of Inland Water Transport (IWT) and Central Inland Waterways Corporation of Assam.

→ Container Corporation of India Limited (CONCOR) operates an Inland Container Depot (ICD) at Amingaon, 10 km from Guwahati. Two bonded warehouses of CONCOR along with a private warehouse (total area of 6,400 sq m) operate from the ICD.

Physical Infrastructure – Inland Waterways

Physical Infrastructure – Roads

Road Type Road Length (km)

Total Road Length 42,641

National Highways 2,836

State Highways 3,134

Major District Roads 4,413

Rural Roads 30,844

Physical Infrastructure – Telecom→ According to Telecom Regulatory

Authority of India (TRAI), Assam had nearly 14.0 million wireless subscribers and 230,987 wire-line subscribers as of January 2012.

→ The state also had 90,245 broadband subscribers as of December 2011.

→ As of December 2011, the state had 597 telephone exchanges.

Telecom Infrastructure (January 2012)

Wireless Subscribers 14,009,483

Wire-line Subscribers 230,987

Broadband Subscribers* 90,245

Post Offices** 4,006

Telephone Exchanges* 597Some of the Major Telecom Operators in

Assam

Reliance CommunicationsBharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)

Bharti AirtelAircel Limited

Vodafone EssarIDEA Cellular

Tata Teleservices

Education

→ Assam has a literacy rate of 73.2 per cent.

.→ The State Government is taking several

steps to encourage setting up of various educational complexes for skill development. The State Government has formed a steering committee and 27 institute management committees, to facilitate close coordination between industry and academia.

Premier Institutions in Assam

•Gauhati University, Guwahati• Assam University, Silchar• Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat• Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati •National Institute of Technology, Silchar • Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh •Gauhati Medical College and Hospital, Guwahati

Social Infrastructure – Health

Health Infrastructure

• State Level Hospital: 1• District Hospitals: 22• Sub Divisional Civil Hospitals: 13• Primary Health Centres: 844• Dispensaries: 261• Sub-Centres: 4,592

Key Industries

Key industries in Assam

•Tea•Coal, Oil and Gas• Limestone and Cement•Agriculture and Horticulture•Food Processing•Tourism•Traditional Cottage Industry•Sericulture

→ Assam produces over 50 per cent of the tea produced in India.

→ As of March 2011, there were 34,327 registered Small Scale Industrial (SSI) / Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) units in the state.

Key Industries – Tea

→ Tea occupies an important place among all the agriculture-based industries in Assam.

→ About 17 per cent of the workers of Assam are engaged in the tea industry.

→ Assam produces over 50 per cent of the tea produced in India and about one-sixth of the tea produced in the world.

→ In 2010-11, total tea production in the state was 525,000 tonnes. → Tea is grown both in the Brahmaputra and the Barak plains.

Tea gardens are mostly found in the districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Nagaon and Sonitpur.

→ The Government has secured a Geographical Indication (GI) for the tea produced in the state. As a result ‘Assam Tea’ is known as ‘Assam Orthodox Tea’.

Assam

Assam Tea Corp Ltd

Assam Company India Ltd

Williamson Magor Group

Apeejay Tea Ltd

TEA INDUSTRIES

Energy: Coal, Oil and Gas.

Indian Oil Corp Ltd (IOCL)

Oil and Natural Gas Corp Ltd (ONGC)

Oil India Ltd (OIL)

Coal India Ltd (CIL)

Cement Corp of India Ltd (CCI)

Barak Valley Cements Ltd

Jaypee Cements Ltd

CEMENT

Medicinal Herbs and Plants→ Assam, with its vast hills and forests, is home to a variety of

medicinal herbs and plants. About 300 types of medicinal herbs and plants are found in abundance in the state with the Brahmaputra Valley, itself, having 150 varieties of herbs and plants of commercial value.

→ Medicinal herbs and plants in the state are Sarpagandha (rauvolfia serpentine Benth.ex.Kur), Pippali (Piper longam Linn), Amlakhi (Emblica Officinalis Gaertn), Hilikha (Terinalia Chebula Retz.), Bhomora (Terminalia belerica), Arjuna (Terminalia arjuna Wight & Arn.) etc.

Assam

Key Industries in Major Districts

District Industries

Barpeta Metal, Mastarted Oil Mill

Bongaigaon Textiles, Dairy, Aluminium, Oil and Natural Gas

Dibrugarh Fertilizer, Petroleum and Natural Gas

Jorhat Tea, Cement, Pharmaceuticals, Aluminium and Food Products

Karimganj Cement

North Cachar Hills Cement

Sivasagar Tea, Oil and Natural Gas

Tinsukia Tea, Coal, Oil and Natural Gas

Religions

Religion in Assam

Religion Percent

Hinduism 64.92%Islam 30.93%

Christianity 3.71%

Others 0.45%

Cultural Infrastructure→ Assam is home to many ethnic groups and

different cultures. The state is rich in folk music; different styles include regional folk music, ethnic folk music and bihu songs, among others.

→ Assam has a rich tradition of performing arts. Ankiya Nat (Onkeeya Naat) is a traditional dance-drama (bhaona) form, popular since the 15th century A.D.

→ The Bihu dance, Kushan Nritya, Sattriya and Banjar Kekan are some of the popular dance forms of Assam.

→ Guwahati is the major centre for sporting facilities. The sports infrastructure available in the city includes the Nehru Stadium and the Kanaklata Indoor Stadium.

→ Other new sports structures in the city include the Maulana Md. Tayabullah Hockey Stadium, the Deshbhakta Tarun Ram Phookan Indoor Stadium, the Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Amingaon and the Chachal Tennis Complex in Guwahati.

Food

Temples

Dress and Dance

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