Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday said that the State government has reached a substantial distance towards the target of making Majuli as one of the most important confluences of people belonging to all caste, community, creed, and ethnicity.
CM Sonowal said this while laying the foundation of a multi-purpose flood shelter home to be built with the financial outlay of Rs 2.51 crore by Assam State Disaster Management Authority and Lok Nirman (B) Bibhag.
The chief minister said that Majuli a seat of Vaishnavite culture has got the distinction of being the land of humanity where people belonging to different caste, community and ethnicity are living in perfect harmony.
He also said that State government has fixed the target of making Majuli as the world famous centres where people of different faiths live in perfect harmony in perfect unison of the nature and culture.
Sonowal also inaugurated the flood protection work of Loba-Garmur involving a financial outlay of Rs 3.60 crore, flood protection work of Karatipar area of Rs 2 crore and again a flood protection work of Loba-Ahotguri of Rs 3.32 crore.
CM Sonowal also said that the flood and erosion since 1951 have caused several changes in the state. Moreover, the people of the state have been trying to project flood and erosion at the national level.
At Karatipar Majuli, CM Shri @sarbanandsonwal inaugurated following projects to tackle flood & erosion.
➡️Foundation stone and Bhumi Pujan of Karatipar Multipurpose Flood Shelter Home.
➡️Erosions protection scheme for Ahatguri area under SOPD pic.twitter.com/xRdjwPmlm2— Chief Minister Assam (@CMOfficeAssam) November 28, 2020
Sonowal expressed hope that the Jal Shakti Bibhag will introduce a bill in the Parliament for lasting solution to flood and erosion in the Northeast.
He also said that the 15th Finance Commission also recommended to include river erosion in the list of natural calamities. He also said that as a result of coordinated efforts between Central and State government it has been made possible to find tangible solution to several problems in the state.
Stating that he can very well empathise with the sufferings that people of the flood affected areas go through as he himself belongs to flood prone area, Sonowal said that State government has decided to construct multi-purpose flood shelter homes in six places of the state. He also said that State government for giving relief to the people of Majuli from flood, has decided to set up 22 flood relief centres using Rs. 2.73 crore at greater Ahotguri areas.
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