India, Oct. 10 -- Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said that Ratan Tata gave the Northeast dignity through healthcare and ambition through industry. On the industrialist's death anniversary, Sarma said that when cancer claimed thousands of lives in Assam every year, Ratan Tata, through Tata Trusts, helped map 17 hospitals across the state and turned the Assam Cancer Care Foundation from an "idea to a lifeline".

He also reposed the same trust by setting up the Tata Semiconductor Facility at Jagiroad, which will become operational by the end of this year, and the township around the area has been named Ratan Tata Electronics City, Sarma said.

"Today, on the occasion of Ratan Tata's 'punyatithi', I remember not just an in...