Overview

• The strategy allocates ₹5,000 crore for infrastructure upgrades across the Northeast’s maritime and inland waterways network.
• A Maritime Skill Development Centre in Guwahati and a new Centre of Excellence in Dibrugarh will receive ₹200 crore to train and employ 50,000 young people over ten years.
• Four tourist-friendly lighthouses at Bogibeel, Biswanath Ghat, Silghat and Pandu will provide weather forecasting and enhance riverfront tourism.
• Eighty-five community jetties and planned water metro services in Guwahati, Dibrugarh and Tezpur aim to boost local passenger and cargo movement.
• Germany-based Rhenus Logistics will deliver 100 barges within two years after confirming the Brahmaputra’s viability for commercial navigation.