Guwahati: Assam is giving adequate focus on renewable sources of energy for speedy development and to mitigate the results of environmental pollution.

Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma today inaugurated the 25 MW Boko Solar Park at Bhalukghata, Boko in Kamrup district, which was built under Build, Own, Operate (BOO) model as a part of Assam Solar Energy Policy, 2017.

The chief minister had yesterday inaugurated a solar project in Udalguri.

The Boko project is one of the four projects taken up under the Assam Solar Energy Policy, 2017. Other projects developed at Nagaon and Silchar are likely to be commissioned soon. The Boko Solar Park is developed by Azure Power Pvt. Ltd. and the developer has committed to supply 5.70 Crore units annually. The entire power will be procured by APDCL at a fixed rate of Rs. 3.24 per unit for 25 years, which will ultimately benefit the consumers.

Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Dr. Sarma said that the Solar Park would lead to enhanced solar power generation, employment opportunities, check environment degradation, and overall augmentation of power generation capacity in the state. He informed that the State govt. is taking steps to establish solar projects in various locations to boost generation capacity and improve power supply.

The Chief Minister further said that the State government doesn’t want to restrict the state power generation capacities only in conventional sources of energy and is giving adequate focus on renewable sources of energy for speedy development and to mitigate the results of environmental pollution.

Power Minister Nandita Gorlosa, Environment & Forest Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary, Handloom & Textiles Minister U G Brahma, MLAs Nandita Das, Hemanga Thakuria, Suman Haripriya, Rekibuddin Ahmed, CEM of Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council Tankaswar Rabha and other dignitaries were also present in the programme.