Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Chief Minister of Assam, was present as the chief guest at the laying of the cornerstone ceremony for the first-ever compressed biogas plant project in North East India at Domora Pathar in Sonapur, in the Kamrup (Metropolitan) district. The plant, which is being built by businessmen Pankaj Gogoi and Rakesh Doley under the name Redlemon Technologies Private Limited, is expected to begin operating in November 2023 and will have a five-tonne-per-day production capacity for compressed biogas from raw materials like municipal solid wastes and cattle manure. Chief Minister Sarma exuded confidence the compressed biogas plant at Sonapur would go a long way in aiding the Government of Assam’s aim of a gradual transition to cleaner and greener energy.