Union Minister of State for Chemicals & Fertilizers, Bijoy Krishna Handique claimed that the gas cracker project will kick start an economic revolution in Assam and her sister states in the region and that one lakh job opportunities "may be in the pipeline in the next seven to eight years." He said the mother cracker unit, being set up as Brahmaputra Cracker & Polymer Limited (BCPL) has received the wholehearted support of the people and wanted this cooperation to continue.

Dibrugarh Additional Deputy Commissioner in charge of revenue, Nareswar Upadhyaya said "55% of the required 3,000 bighas of land for BCPL has already been handed over to Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) till today and the remainder will be handed over before April 15." He refuted allegations of any scandal relating to payment of compensation money, and that everything has been done following a meticulous documentation process, including detailed video recording of property of the displaced families. He informed that till today, 128 families have been paid a total of Rs 12 crore as compensation and that the remaining compensation dues are being paid expeditiously and systematically.

Meanwhile, Handique said all the Industrial Training Institutes in Assam have been specifically asked to introduce plastic engineering as a course. Expert trainers from the Central Institute for Plastic Engineering and Technology (CIPET) are likely to be associated with this ambitious scheme to build up a pool of technologists and entrepreneurs, to gain from the gas cracker. "The Rs 6,000 crore that will be invested in building up BCPL is one part of the scenario, the downstream industries that are expected to come out would entail investments ten times this amount and spring up massive employment potential," he said.

The Union Minister said the entrepreneurs would be financed on easy terms by SIDBI, and that all the districts of Assam would have plastic parks for setting up downstream projects. He added that he has requested GAIL, the operating partner in BCPL, to set up a permanent mini plastic park at Lepetkata. This would help potential entrepreneurs to see the vast potential of plastics. He said that a recent international survey has shown that the global per capita consumption of plastics per annum is 25 kg, that of India 4.5 kg, 35 kg in China and 1 kg in India's northeast. He hastened to add that people have a notion of carry bags alone as plastic products, whereas plastics are used in a big variety, and that due importance has to be accorded to cleaner disposal and recycling of the material.