Overview
- The Darrang administration has allotted over 146 bighas for a 430-bed medical college, which is estimated to cost ₹572 crore.
- The Rs 8,000 crore package also includes the Narengi-Kurua bridge over the Brahmaputra and the Guwahati ring road, both set for foundation laying on September 8.
- Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has issued directives to transplant small trees and preserve larger plants, with a relocation site identified at the Government Sericulture Farm.
- Eviction drives have begun to clear hundreds of bighas occupied by unauthorized settlers, while genuine landless residents receive alternative plots.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the projects at a public meeting in Mangaldai before attending Bhupen Hazarika’s birth centenary in Guwahati.