Assam: Assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary Seeks Bhutan’s Cooperation for Water Supply Schemes

GUWAHATI: Assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary was recently in Bhutan with a proposal to use Bhutan’s water for supplying to resisdents of Assam living in the Indo- Bhutan border areas.

The proposal is to use naturally flowing water from Bhutan’s rivers for setting up water supply plants to provide water to Assam residents without the use of electrically- operated machinery.

Daimary has written to the Samdrup Jhonkar district administration, urging it to provide NOC to set up such free-flowing water supply projects on Assam land.

The Speaker also held discussions with the deputy commissioner of Samdrup Jhonkar and members of the Assam- Bhutan Friendship Society at Hotel Mountain in Samdrup Jhonkar.

Daimary informed that the Assam government proposes to set up big drinking water projects in Paneri constituency of Udalguri district in Assam.

The proposal is to connect the waters of Bhutan’s Samrang river with the Nanoi river in Paneri constituency for a water supply project under Jal Jeevan Mission at a cost of Rs 175 crores. The project is to be named ‘Nanoi Multi Village Pipe Water Supply Scheme’. Paneri is the home constituency of Biswajit Daimary. The project is estimated to benefit one and half lakh people in Paneri’s Uttaranchal.

The project envisages bringing water from several kilometers inside Bhutan through the use of huge pipes and then use two filtration units to deliver drinking water to the houses of the people. There will be no electricity used to deliver the water. Gravity will do the work.

Daimary also talked of setting up more such water supply plants in Bhutan- bordering areas in BTR in the future. According to Biswajit Daimary, such projects will benefit people living in the India- Bhutan border areas.

He also announced that Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma will inaugurate the project on April 1.

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