Three years have rolled by and Chief Minister Gogoi can look back with happiness and relief that much of his plans for a better quality of life have reached the nook and corner of the state, more so in the rural areas. Today it is nice to see the voluntary formation of self-help circles and self-employment schemes which are working with great aplomb and producing results cheering the minds and hearts of the young rural people. The introduction of panchayati raj with its deep roots in the society has opened up new vistas for various developmental schemes at the grass-roots. Mention may be made of the spurt in road building and improvement of the existing ones by the people themselves have led to all-round development of self-help circles. 'Raijor Podulit Raijor Sarkar' has taken the administration to the doorsteps of the people and it has borne positive results. The earlier tendency of young people thronging to Dispur and other District headquartes for job hunting is much less now.
Chief Minister Gogoi is aware that the prosperity of assam depends on rural development where the vast majority of the people live. It is laudable that the Chief Minister has accepted the recommendation of Assam Administration Reforms Commission relating to the delivery system, Public grievance cells and placing the Divisional Commissioners at their headquarters so that they could be directly in public touch.
Three years is more than a mid-point of Gogoi's tenure, and naturally enough the people would like to read the balancesheet of how the Government is running and what qualitative change it has been able to affect over these three years. Law-and-order situation has improved a lot -for instance in Guwahati today people are moving about even late at night and the fear psychosis which was there

before is no more.
To be fair to Chief Minister Gogoi, he has his feet well planted in assam and he realises that if the rural areas donot develop with self-help groups, better road network, good health care, better educational facilities, access to safe drinking water etc., Assam will remain a back-bencher amongst the other states. He has also realised that the development of the rural areas has to get the top most by priority, and therefore he has addressed himself to the task of strengthening the system of Panchayati Raj.
Agriculture has looked up, and assam has made rapid strides thanks to inputs like better agricultural extension services, distribution of better seeds, provision of shallow-wells for irrigation. Today, Assam is a surplus rice producing State and the shift has now been towards produce like mustered, pulses, onions, ginger etc., for instance, is now being exported. Organic fruit productions like oranges, pineapples are on the cards for facilitating the fruit process industry. Yet much more can be done in this sector- proper storage facility can be set up for over produced vegetables. Mention may be also be made of and reforms which are still a far cry. Pattas mostly in the rural areas are still annual, land holdings are fragmanted and there is no move for accretion of land holdings. Chief Minister Gogoi has to seriously apply his mind into these aspects.
In the industrial sector, the situation has looked up to a better horizon. even many of the hitherto sick and ailing industries are getting a fresh breath of life. There is an obvious turn-around for many of them. The Corporation like Amtron, Assam Cooperative Jute Mill, Assam Gas Company among a few others have raised new hope and they are