Surrounded by a ring of blue hills, Assam has two largest valleys, the Brahmaputra Valley and the Barak Valley where the main body of the people of Assam live, the people with history dating back to ancient vedic era. In ancient days, Assam was known as Kamrup where according to legend, Kamdeva, the Hindu God of love was reborn. The stat

Coal production in 1999 was 921 thousand MT. The state also has limestone, refractory clay, dolomite and corundum. Limestone production in 1999 was 379 thousand MT.

Assam has a population of approximately 25 million with a ratio of 896 females for every 1,000 males. Since time immemorial, Assam has been the happy meeting ground of people belonging to different ethnic groups, communities and cultural entities. For example, even the Brahmaputra Valley is an area rich with the contribution of different such groups most of whom got assimilated in the composite Assamese identity. To the south, in the Barak valley, Bengali-speaking people along with tribal communities have been making similar contributions to the emergence of a distinct identity of Assam.

The State’s economy in terms of Net State Domestic Product (NSDP) has registered an annual growth rate of 8.2 per cent at constant prices (1993-94) during 1999-2000 while at current prices it was 16.0 per cent. The NSDP at constant prices for 1999-2000 (Q) is Rs.155547.1 million and in current prices it is Rs.250509.6 million.

There are 265 colleges for general education, 6 medical colleges (including dental, homeopathic, Ayurvedic), 3 engineering colleges, 2 agricultural colleges, 24 teacher-training colleges and 1 fisheries college.

In summary, administration in Assam, as in all of India, is very centralized, with mostly appointed administrators below the state level. This has been a cause of concern for a lot of scholars, politicians and others, and may be one of the primary reasons of political turmoil in the border states of India, including Assam.

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