The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal visited the Naliapool area of Dibrugarh City to inspect the drainage & sewerage system today.
Sonowal, who is also the Lok Sabha MP for Dibrugarh LSC, called upon the experts & authorities to hedge all efforts, resources and knowledge to chalk out a sustainable and pragmatic solution to the ill designed drainage system – a system that will prevent artificial floods to affect the city life.
Sarbananda Sonowal further stressed that IIT, Guwahati will be studying the causes of artificial floods in the city based on which a masterplan will be prepared. The government will take corrective measured based on this to fix the artificial flooding in the city. The Union Minister Sonowal also called up the Chief Minister of Assam, Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma in this regard.
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ble solution to the artificial flooding problem of Dibrugarh.”
Following the inspection visit, the Union Minister instructed the officials to swiftly act to bring relief to the public. Shri Sonowal also stressed on the need of the civic bodies to address range of issue
s, including encroachment. He urged the officials, furthermore, to expedite efforts towards finding a permanent solution to these challenges, incorporating expert opinions and suggestions into their plans.
The Union Minister was accompanied by the Mayor, Dibrugarh Municipal Corporation (DMC), Saikat Patra; the District Commissioner, Vikram Kairi among other senior officials of the state government.
