[Assam] New-look Guwahati is GDD dream "TheSentinel " 02.02.2007

Thu Feb 1 20:58:40 EST 2007

>If the citizens hold the feet of Himanta Sarma 
>to the foire, it will happen or boot him out in 
>the next >election.

If I am not mistaken the 'bums' are booted out 
and re-elected in as routinely as the changing of 
seasons, in the fine traditions of 
desi-demokrasy. Question is WHAT changes? So what 
if a minister  cannot deliver on his promises and 
is booted out? Why should he care? Just go take a 
look at the mansions the ministers have already 
put up, and the roads to their homes improved, no 
doubt to enable the ministers  to perform their 
services to the public better.

On a slightly different but related note, an ugly 
foot bridge has been put up across the road at 
Xukleswar, so steep that the feeble and the 
elderly probably get to heaven before they get to 
set foot on holy grounds on the bank of the 
Brahmaputra. My fears realized much faster than I 
imagined!

cm

At 5:17 PM -0800 2/1/07, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
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>Why should it be a dream? If the citizens hold 
>the feet of Himanta Sarma to the foire, it will 
>happen or boot him out in the next election. 
>"Hobo Diyok"   has to stop somewhere. Let the 
>tax-payers and the voters decide.
>Dilip Deka
>
>Buljit Buragohain <buluassam at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
>New-look Guwahati is GDD dream
>* Tender for ropeway over Brahmaputra today.
>* DPR for Solid Waste Management given to 
>Israeli firm, global tender after DPR.
>* Project for metro rail and buses in the offing.
>By a Staff Reporter
>GUWAHATI, Feb 1: Guwahati Development Department 
>(GDD) Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today said 
>that if everything went as planned, 2008 would 
>see a rope bridge over the Brahmaputra, 
>underground metro rail and metro buses etc in 
>the Guwahati that was being projected as the 
>‘gateway to the Southeast Asian nations’. This 
>is apart from the Rs 1,700-crore Municipal Solid 
>Waste Management Project for the city under the 
>Jawharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.
>Talking to newsmen in the city, Sarma said that 
>the contract of the detailed project report 
>(DPR) for the MSWMP had already been given to 
>Tahal, an Israel-based company, and global 
>tender for the project would be floated after 
>the submission of the DPR by Tahal. The project 
>will also include sewerage, water supply and 
>drainage in the city.
>According to the minister, the project envisages 
>introduction of new technology in treating solid 
>waste and involvement of community and private 
>sector investment to make the project 
>economically viable. Sarma added that the site 
>for waste treatment and landfilling measuring 
>180 bighas earmarked by the Guwahati Municipal 
>Corporation (GMC) at Garchuk, near Paschim Gaon 
>in the city, had already been approved by the 
>CPHEEO, technical appraisal agency of the 
>Central Government. According to him, the 
>project envisages collection and transportation 
>of waste, their treatment and disposal of the 
>product through market interventions. “In case 
>of compositing, the resultant product will be 
>sold off to potential buyers like nearby tea 
>gardens and other users. In case of waste to 
>energy concept, the electricity to be generated 
>will be used by dedicated users,” Sarma said, 
>and added: “The project has been designed for a 
>total of 20 years with introduction of an 
>additional 300-tonne-per-day-capacity plant in 
>the 11th year.”
>A Government of India agency has almost been 
>given the responsibility to examine the 
>feasibility of the project for metro rail and 
>buses so as to ease the traffic snarl in 
>Guwahati. According to Sarma, the final decision 
>in this regard will be taken in the next Cabinet 
>meeting.
>Sarma further said that the State Government 
>would float the tender for the Ropeway project 
>over the Brahmaputra tomorrow. The Swiss Ropeway 
>Corporation and RITES Ltd, Gurgaon, were the 
>consultancy firms engaged to examine feasibility 
>of the project, the report of which has already 
>been submitted, Sarma said.
>It may be mentioned here that the 
>1,820-metre-long and Rs 29.87-crore ropeway, an 
>alternative mode of transportation between 
>Guwahati and North Guwahati, will have the 
>passenger capacity of 250 people an hour.
>According to Sarma, it will be the longest river 
>ropeway in India, and will have many attractive 
>features like vertical open lifts at both ends 
>of the terminal, attractive viewpoints etc.
>
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