By means of PTI
NEW DELHI: The rustic’s longest river cruise provider between Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and Bogibeel in Assam will start from early 2023, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal mentioned on Monday.
It’ll duvet a distance of greater than 4000 kilometres in the course of the Ganga, Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Path (IBPR) and Brahmaputra.
This may occasionally give the folks of Assam an opportunity to make use of waterways to advertise industry and livelihood in tourism and load transportation, the minister added.
“Our executive could also be figuring out avenues to advertise inland navigation, river cruise tourism, and building of appropriate terminals around the Brahmaputra,” the minister of ports, transport and waterways mentioned.
On Monday, the minister introduced more than one tasks for the improvement of the Bogibeel area close to Dibrugarh in Assam.
On this regard, the minister laid the root stones to build two floating jetties at Bogibeel and Guijan.
He additionally inaugurated Bogibeel riverfront passenger jetty.
Two floating jetties, at Bogibeel in Dibrugarh district and Guijan in Tinsukia district within the north-eastern state, shall be built as state-of-art terminals the use of probably the most complex and up to date generation.
Each the jetties are being built via Inland Waterways Authority of India over the Nationwide Waterways – 2 (NW-2), popularly referred to as river Brahmaputra.
The paintings has been awarded to Coastal Consolidated Buildings Pvt Ltd on an Engineering, Procurement, Building (EPC) contract mode .
The 2 jetties are estimated to be constructed at a value of Rs 8.25 crore and scheduled to be finished via February subsequent 12 months.
NEW DELHI: The rustic’s longest river cruise provider between Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and Bogibeel in Assam will start from early 2023, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal mentioned on Monday.
It’ll duvet a distance of greater than 4000 kilometres in the course of the Ganga, Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Path (IBPR) and Brahmaputra.
This may occasionally give the folks of Assam an opportunity to make use of waterways to advertise industry and livelihood in tourism and load transportation, the minister added.
“Our executive could also be figuring out avenues to advertise inland navigation, river cruise tourism, and building of appropriate terminals around the Brahmaputra,” the minister of ports, transport and waterways mentioned.
On Monday, the minister introduced more than one tasks for the improvement of the Bogibeel area close to Dibrugarh in Assam.
On this regard, the minister laid the root stones to build two floating jetties at Bogibeel and Guijan.
He additionally inaugurated Bogibeel riverfront passenger jetty.
Two floating jetties, at Bogibeel in Dibrugarh district and Guijan in Tinsukia district within the north-eastern state, shall be built as state-of-art terminals the use of probably the most complex and up to date generation.
Each the jetties are being built via Inland Waterways Authority of India over the Nationwide Waterways – 2 (NW-2), popularly referred to as river Brahmaputra.
The paintings has been awarded to Coastal Consolidated Buildings Pvt Ltd on an Engineering, Procurement, Building (EPC) contract mode .
The 2 jetties are estimated to be constructed at a value of Rs 8.25 crore and scheduled to be finished via February subsequent 12 months.
