Guwahati, Oct. 11 -- Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, continuing the Assam Government's transparent and merit-based recruitment process, presented appointment letters to 439 candidates for different departments at a programme held at Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra in Guwahati on Sunday.

The appointment letters were given for various posts in the Cooperation, Labour Welfare, Public Health Engineering and Water Resources departments. With this, the total number of government appointments under the two terms of the State Government has reached 1,65,749.

Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Dr Sarma extended his heartfelt congratulations to all the candidates who received appointment letters today, as well as their parents and...