New Delhi: The Assam Government on Wednesday decided to upgrade the four-lane stretch of road leading to the new terminal of Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport to a six-lane one.
The decision to upgrade the four-lane road leading to the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati was taken at the cabinet meeting held on Wednesday.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma attended the cabinet meeting virtually from the Assam House in New Delhi.
An additional amount for ₹116 crore for the six-lane road has been allocated from the state budget.
The estimated cost for the project will now be ₹474 crore, the cabinet meeting decided.
The cabinet meeting also decided to institute a separate literary award after noted litterateur Homen Borgohain for those who are getting government pension.
A one-time assistance for ₹50,000 will be given to those who are already receiving any other pension.
It was decided that the monthly literary pension will be given to individuals except government employees.
However, government employees who worked under corporation and undertakings and not drawing government pension will be eligible for literary pension.
“The decision was taken as there was audit objection to award literary pension to the government pensioners,” the Chief Minister said.
Briefing the media after the cabinet meeting, Sarma said Assam would witness a new surge in development as projects worth a whopping ₹1 lakh crore is likely to be announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to the Advantage Assam Summit in February next year.
Disclosing the projects in detail, the Chief Minister outlined the expansion of Bongaigaon Refinery to additional 5 million MT, and expansion of Namrup Fertilizer Plant at a cost of ₹10,000 crore.
Sarma also said the Guwahati Ring Road project, the Kaziranga Elevated Corridor, and the Numaligarh-Gohpur road tunnel will totally change the dynamics of development in Assam.
The Assam Chief Minister said a new Expressway from Guwahati to Barapani and to Panchgram will be constructed at a cost of ₹25,000 crore.
A new bridge over the Brahmaputra connecting Morigaon and Darrang, two satellite townships at Jagiroad and Palasbari at an estimated cost of ₹10,000 crore and a railway project connecting Guwahati to Gelephu in Bhutan are also in the pipeline.
“The series of meetings I had with the Prime Minister and Central Ministers during my current visit to the national capital have yielded rich dividends with very positive outcomes,” Sarma said.
