CM Sarbananda Sonowal Reviews Smart City Project Implementation

GUWAHATI: A review meeting to discuss the implementation of Smart City project was held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal at Janata Bhawan on Thursday in which a number of decisions were taken to carry out beatification drive in Guwahati city. Important decisions of the meeting include big size entry gates at LGBI Airport and Khanapara reflecting the heritage of the state, a state-of-the-art stadium near B Barooah Cancer Institute having facilities for indoor and outdoor games as well as 1.3 km iconic bridge at Brahmaputra riverfront.

Chief Minister Sonowal during the meeting directed the officials of Guwahati Development Department to carry out a survey to identify the homeless people in the city and asked them to develop the available space on the lower parts of the flyovers as night shelter area for the homeless with proper sanitary toilet and other modern facilities. He also instructed the officials to arrange double parking facility at the middle part of the flyovers wherever available.

Moreover, decisions were taken for automated traffic signal on the roads in the city. Chief Minister Sonowal also asked the department to expeditiously earmark the boundary of Deepor Beel so that steps could be taken to make the water body pollution-free. Further, in view of completion of beautification works at Gandhi Mandap under Smart City project, it was decided to dedicate the same to public on 2nd October commemorating the birth anniversary of the father of the nation, a press release stated.

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