Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will sound the poll bugle for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Assam with a rally in the insurgency prone district of Kokrajhar on Tuesday.
BJP sources said Modi will address the youth rally at Khanapara in Assam prior to the IIITG programme.
BJP has tied up with the Bodo People's Front and is hoping for a similar tie up with the Asom Gana Parishad ahead of polls in May-June.
Modi will also lay the foundation stone of the campus of Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati (IIITG) during his visit. Modi will address students of IIT, IIITG and students of all central technical institutions in the North-East region, IIITG Mentor Director Gautam Barua said.
His address will be transmitted to other institutions though the National Knowledge Network, he said.
The Assam Governor, Chief minister, Union HRD minister Smriti Irani, state education minister Sarat Borkotoky are expected to attend the function.
IIITG is one of the 20 IIITs set up by the central government in NPPP (not-for-profit public private partnership) mode. The campus is located at Sontola Gaon, 4 kms from the airport towards Goalpara, with an area of 70 acres, Barua said.
The institute is operating from its temporary premises in Assam Textile Institute campus at Ambari in Guwahati.
Preliminary construction work has started and buildings are expected to be ready by the end of 2017, the Mentor Director said.
IIITG began its operations in August 2013 and now has three undergraduate batches with a total strength of 179 students, the Mentor Director said.
Its partners are central government (57.5 per cent funding share), Assam Government (35 per cent), Tata Consultancy Services, Oil India Limited, Srei Infrastructure Finance Ltd and Amtron Ltd (1.875 per cent each), Barua added.
(With additional information from PTI)
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