Centre abandons education project in Tripura

AGARTALA, July 22: The Tripura government has criticised the Centre for abandoning an Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) funded educational project in the state and demanded immediate intervention by the Prime Minister on the issue. The state education minister Anil Sarkar said here on July 21 that the Centre had cancelled the Rs 43 cr educational project to be funded by OPEC International Development Fund "without assigning any reason". He said the state chief minister Manik Sarkar urged the Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to intervene and requested the human resource development minister Murli Manohar Joshi to sanction an equal amount from similar other projects if the current one was discarded.