BAKSA has long been accustomed to its obscurity. The pace of development in this northwestern district of Assam has been painfully slow. There aren’t the schools, colleges, hospitals and enterprises that its population of around a million needs for life to improve.
It became a full-fledged district in 2003 after the setting up of an autonomous council for Bodo tribal people in a deal to end their insurgency. But subsequently, not much has changed though 18 years have passed.
Imagine the surprise then when the Assam chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, made it a point to visit. . .