{"id":206351,"date":"2022-12-06T00:04:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=206351"},"modified":"2022-12-06T00:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:34:28","slug":"to-make-guwahati-flood-free-himanta-says-his-govt-exploring-engineering-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/12\/06\/to-make-guwahati-flood-free-himanta-says-his-govt-exploring-engineering-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"To make Guwahati flood-free, Himanta says his govt exploring engineering solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nGuwahati, Dec 5 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said his government is exploring engineering solutions to make the state&#8217;s largest city, Guwahati, free from floods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clearing of encroachments on water-carrying channels of the city and de-siltation are also being given priority, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Discussed modalities to make Guwahati flood-free and decided to bring in engineering solutions to flash flood and water logging problem in the city,&#8221; Sarma tweeted on Sunday after a meeting with officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All the pumping stations will be revamped and two more will be built, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sarma said the Kamrup Metropolitan district administration, Guwahati Municipal Corporation and Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority will take up a widening project of the Bharalu river, a tributary of the Brahmaputra which flows through the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All illegal encroachments on both sides of Bharalu, Basistha and Bahini will be cleared, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Basistha and Bahini are two rivulets that flow through Guwahati.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sarma said that de-siltation of water-carrying channels and drains will be done on a war footing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Garbage bins &amp; CCTVs to be installed across the city,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, Dec 5 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said his government is exploring engineering solutions to make the state&#8217;s largest city, Guwahati, free from floods. Clearing of encroachments on water-carrying channels of the city and de-siltation are also being given priority, he said. &#8220;Discussed modalities to make Guwahati flood-free and decided to bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-206351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}