Efforts on to make Guwahati a top-5 city: Minister Atul Bora

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) president and Cabinet Minister Atul Bora on Tuesday said that the State Government is making all efforts to convert Guwahati into one of the top five cities of the country.

In an interaction with the media at the party headquarters at Ambari here during release of the AGP's manifesto for the ensuing Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) election, Bora said that the AGP has adopted the resolve of accepting all responsibility that falls on the party as a partner in the incumbent State Government. He said that the Government is determined to ensure resolve problems of farmers, including enhancing their productivity.

Bora further said that steps are being taken to make the AGP more proactive. The party will launch a membership drive after the GMC election. In this context, he said that the AGP continues to "uphold regional sentiments with a national outlook."

Bora said that the Government has taken steps to make Guwahati pollution-free and environmentally safe. Moreover, he said, an initiative is afoot to expand the city limits into adjoining areas in order to ease the load of population and traffic. Guwahati is making progress in the journey towards becoming a sports capital, he said.

Reiterating the AGP's commitment towards Guwahati, Bora said that the commitment includes providing land rights to landless people, making Guwahati 'Green', ridding the city of garbage and making it clean, improving the traffic system, creating more parks and open spaces for the public, ensuring regular water supply to all parts of the city, ending the problem of artificial floods through scientific and well-planned means, controlling crime and substance abuse in the city, improving all roads, bye-lanes and manholes, installing streetlights on each road and bye-lanes while ensuring uninterrupted electricity supply, ending the destruction of hills and forests, preserving monuments and landmarks of the city, creating recreational areas for senior citizens, constructing more flyovers and additional roads to ease traffic congestion.

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