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BTC distributes vehicles under BVY

BTC executive member for Transport Department James Basumatary distributed Tata Wingers and Auto Rickshaws to boost alternative employment in a function held at the BTC Secretariat Complex at Bodofa Nwgwr in Kokrajhar on Wednesday. 

About 200 Tata Wingers and Auto Rickshaws were given away to educated unemployed youths of ten sub-divisions in four districts of the council under Bodoland Vikash Yajana (BVY) through the Chief’s Discretionary Fund. 

BTC EM Basumatary said that the council distributed the vehicles among the unemployed youths to supplement income generation and employment in the society under BVY. 

Earlier agriculture-tractors were distributed by the council.

 

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