With funds allocated for development work in the state drying up, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said his government was bringing out a white paper comparing and detailing funds allocated to the state by the Centre during the previous United Progressive Alliance government and the incumbent National Democratic Alliance government, reports K Anurag.

The white paper will be tabled in the state assembly and shall be made part of official record. He said the white paper would serve to negate the oft repeated claims of visiting Union ministers about the substantial allocation of funds to the state under the present regime.

Gogoi also charged the Centre of not releasing money in time for developmental works in the state and that he would continue to knock at the doors in New Delhi with his 'just demand' for greater allocation of funds to the backward state."We (the North Eastern states) are not beggars, we are elected chief ministers. We will continue demanding what is justified,' Gogoi said maintaining that even those NE states which have the Bharatiya Janata Party's allies in power have also been deprived of funds from the Centre.

"The NDA government has made changes in the old system of funding the NE states. If the change could bring about better fund flow from the Centre, it would have been alright. But there has been no positive change, the NDA has just messed up the system,' Gogoi said.