The mission will be started with Rs 30 crore, and the annual outlay will be increased in the years to come, Tripura Tourism Minister Sushanta Chowdhury said.
The northeastern state has two parliamentary constituencies – Tripura West and Tripura East – both of which were bagged by the ruling party in the 2019 polls.
"Union Home Minister Amit Shah ji is arriving today from Guwahati. He is scheduled to hold meeting with Manik Saha and other senior party leaders", BJP Tripura unit chief spokesperson Subrata Chakraborty told PTI.
Noting that the GST is a consumption-based taxation, the minister said the more the state consumes, the more will be its GST collection.
The delegation is expected to stay in Tripura till March 12 after which it will submit a report and the issue will be raised in Parliament which convenes on March 13.
"We were able to conduct the polling process without disturbance on February 16, with the state registering a high voting percentage. Our next mission is to ensure that peace prevails in the state on the day of counting,”...
"There are many unsung freedom fighters who have made supreme sacrifices but did not find a place in history. The programme is mulled to recall and pay homage to those unsung heroes", Saha said.
Chief Minister Manik Saha, BJP state election in-charge Mahesh Sharma, and the party's state unit president, Rajib Bhattacharya, would receive the PM at Maharaja Bir Bikram (MBB) Airport here, he said.
Adhikari, while addressing an election rally in Sepahijala district, also said that people of Tripura have benefitted more in the past five years than they did...
For the first time in the northeastern state, the CPI(M)-led Left Front, which ran the government in Tripura for 25 years till 2018, and the Congress entered...
He said the 15-km-long Agartala-Akhaura railway project to connect Northeast with Bangladesh would be completed next year.
Sarkar, the leader of the opposition, made the comment after he visited the house of CPI(M) activist Shaid Miah, 75, who was killed in the clash with BJP in...
Addressing a party rally in West Tripura's Suryamaninagar, Saha said 95-96 percent of beneficiaries were receiving benefits of various schemes of the Centre...
Saha, who chaired a meeting of senior police officers during the day, said that cases of assault, rape and murder have decreased in Tripura since 2018, after...
As many as 48 cases under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act were registered in the state in September alone, with 76 people arrested,...
A senior official stated that the Tripura government has decided to reimpose the face mask mandate for people at public places in the wake of the surge in the...
When Saha's name was proposed in the BJP meeting, minister Ram Prasad Paul protested, which led to a scuffle among MLAs, sources told PTI.
12 veterinary mobile vans equipped with modern facilities would provide health services to ailing animals such as cows, goats and pigs, said an official.
The Roman Script for Kokborok-Choba (RSKC), a conglomeration of 56 indigenous socio-cultural organizations of Tripura have opposed the move to make Hindi a...
