[Assam] National waterway status for Barak

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

National waterway status for Barak



OUR CORRESPONDENT
Silchar,
March 2: The Union ministry of road transport and shipping has
sanctioned a Rs 91.50-crore scheme to upgrade a 129-km stretch of the
Barak, the second longest river in the Northeast, to national waterway.

A
bill to upgrade the stretch of the Barak between Lakhipur (a
sub-divisional town in Cachar district) and Bhanga (in Karimganj
district), via the Cachar district headquarters of Silchar, to NW6 was
passed in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
details here: http://borakvalley.com/