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
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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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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