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00:00Can you talk about the solar tendering, like projects have to be awarded, so is there a
00:13pipeline of projects that you will invite awards?
00:17No.
00:18Assam is, as of now, we are in various stages of implementation.
00:24We are already working on 5,000 MW solar.
00:28Out of that, 1,000 MW is funded by ADB.
00:32And the remaining 7,000 MW we are doing on behalf of the private sector and the government.
00:38So that will be tendering?
00:39No.
00:40These are the things we come, we give on first come, first received.
00:43Because right now there is no issue of tendering.
00:46Whatever land we have, we are doing it immediately.
00:50We are coming out with a new innovative policy.
00:53Assam has a very large landscape of tea gardens.
00:59The fallow land of the tea garden, which cannot be used for tea, but it's a fallow land,
01:07we have cleaned it for solar.
01:10If you want to do solar, then we don't need any clearance from us.
01:16All that.
01:17Because tea gardens, across we have 800 tea gardens.
01:21Which companies are having interest in this proposal?
01:25No, no.
01:26There are a lot of people coming.
01:27Yesterday, Tata also said, I have to invest 500 power.
01:30There are a lot of people.
01:32I mean, I am doing 1,000 MW with Naveli Lignite.
01:36So in solar, there are a lot of proposals in our table.
01:41And you don't take up this idea of electricity renewal?
01:46See, what is this?
01:48We have a very big dream, in the next 10 years,
01:52that the electricity generated in Assam,
01:55their electricity power should come from a green source.
01:59Like we did the same with Tata Semiconductor.
02:04The first point was that this semiconductor industry will be source green power.
02:10So we are talking to Bhutan government,
02:14we are talking to Arunachal,
02:16that as our industrial base increases,
02:20we will try to generate more hydropower and solar power,
02:24so that whichever industry comes to Assam,
02:27their source of power, electricity is green.
02:31During your meetings with the industrialists over the last two days,
02:36did you actually discuss this issue about hiring illegal migrants?
03:01This is our day-to-day fight for identity.
03:20See, this is not only on investment.
03:23If that dam is built in China,
03:26then our entire ecosystem,
03:31because our ecosystem lives on Brahmaputra,
03:34if that dam is built,
03:36water will be reduced by 60% in Brahmaputra.
03:40So our entire ecosystem, civilization,
03:45everything is surrounding the river Brahmaputra.
03:48So the Chinese dam,
03:50we didn't assess how much impact it will have,
03:54because it is a new thing.
03:56The sociological impact that needs to be studied,
04:00that has not been done,
04:02because we don't have a lot of details about the dam.
04:05But the initial report,
04:07it will be very, very disastrous,
04:10and it will be very devastating
04:12for the entire northeastern region.
04:15Sir, the land reform scheme in Maharashtra, MP,
04:20is motivated by...
04:22Yes, it started in Assam.
04:24In Assam, in 2019,
04:27we had decided that
04:29the women of Assam
04:31would receive Rs. 850 in the bank account
04:34every month, on the 10th of every month.
04:37So that Rs. 830 became today Rs. 1250.
04:43And we sent this money to 40 lakh women
04:47every month, on their bank account,
04:50on the 10th of every month.
04:53This has been going on for 6 years.
04:56And there was an Oxford study also...