Ro-Pax Ferry Service Begun Between Nimati Ghat and Majuli in Assam

Chandra Mohan Patowary on Friday has written on his Facebook handle, "The Ro-Pax ferry service has been started between Nimati Ghat and Majuli".

Ro-Pax is the acronym of Roll on/Roll off passenger ferry and works as a freight vehicle transport with passenger accommodation.

Earlier on 8 September many people are feared missing after two boats with about a hundred passengers sunk after colliding with each other in the river Brahmaputra in Jorhat, Assam. Currently, rescue operations continue at Nimatighat where a major boat accident occurred today. As per the state's report, 42 people have been rescued and around 70 are still missing, says officials. Meanwhile, Assam State Transport minister Chandra Mohan Patowary has suspended three officials following the tragic ferry accident at NimatiGhat, Jorhat.

Reportedly, Bikramaditya Choudhury, i/c Executive Engineer, IWT, Dibrugarh Division, Mukut Gogoi, i/c Assistant Executive Engineer, IWT, Jorhat Sub-Division and Ratul Tamuli, Junior Engineer, IWT, Jorhat Sub-Division have been placed under suspension on Wednesday. One person who was rescued has been reported to have died on way to the hospital. The deceased has been identified as Paramita Das, a resident of Kahilipara Guwahati. She was working as a lecturer at a college in Majuli.

Two teams of SDRF and two NDRF teams along with local people are searching for missing people. Two passenger boats collided at river Brahmaputra resulting in one boat turning turtle with many passengers stuck inside. Those who could manage jumped off the boat as the boat slowly turned upside down. Video footage from the site showed people desperately trying to get off the slowly turning boat and crying for help.

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