Survey of flood-prone areas by senior govt officials in Guwahati

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Guwahati, May 11: A team of senior Government officials led by Principal Secretary, Guwahati Development Department, Maninder Singh along with Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup Metropolitan District Biswajit Pegu, Commissioner GMC, CEO GMDA, and other officials from DDMA, GMC, GMDA, NHAI, PWD (R)etc., carried out a survey of the progress of flood mitigation works by different departments underway in flood-prone areas of Guwahati city.
The high level team on saturday visited flood-prone areas of the city such as Khanapara, VIP road, Satgaon, Narangi, Bonda, etc., and reviewed the flood mitigation work undertaken by various departments and also directed the departments concerned to expedite the desiltation/ excavation and cleaning activities of all the natural water channels in and around Guwahati, including major and internal drains around the city and plan for long term measures to mitigate the city’s artificial water-logging problem.