GUWAHATI: The work on the Guwahati Ring-Road will begin within a month with the tendering process having been completed.
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This was revealed by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma while talking to reporters after inaugurating the redeveloped Terminal 1 building of the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati on Wednesday, February 5 morning.
“The tendering process is complete and work on the ring road will begin within a month, “ Sarma said. He also informed that the project was among a few others that he had discussed with Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Nitin Gadkari, during his recent visit to New Delhi. Among these projects are the Kaziranga Elevated Corridor, the completion of the Numaligarh-Gohpur Tunnel, Majuli-Jorhat Bridge, and the Jorhat-Dibrugarh Highway. He said that the tunnel project has reached the Public Investment Board (PIB) before being taken up in the Cabinet. “I also discussed the project with officials of the PIB,” the chief minister said.
Guwahati Ring Road will start at Kamalpur near Baihata Chariali and, bypassing the Baihata area and other populated villages, it will reach Kuruwa through Degaon, Karara, Mandakata and Suktaguri. From Kuruwa there will be a six-lane bridge over Brahmaputra till Tera Tukra near Narangi. From Narengi the Greenfield road will reach Kapalkata at Sonapur (near Digaru bridge) through Panikheti, Chandrapur crossing the Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary. The road from Kamalpur to Sonapur will be four-lane except the Kuruwa-Narengi bridge, which will be six-lane.
A 55-kilometre Greenfield road from Kamalpur to Sonapur will be constructed. Altogether 350 hectares of land will have to be acquired by the government to make the ring road, including the widening of the road from Basistha to Jorabat. It will be a 121-kilometre long road network and will be developed in Build Operate Toll (BOT) mode. The total cost of the project is ₹3,689 crore.
