Sikkim can be first poverty-free state

  • 06/12/2000

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)

Sikkim can attain its potential to become the first poverty-free state in India if concerted public action focuses on ensuring balanced development, enlarging employment opportunities, safeguarding environmental resources and putting in place a responsive system of governance, the Sikkim human development report, which was released by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Wednesday, said.