Guwahati, June 20 -- By NE NOW NEWS

Guwahati: The Brahmaputra Board has launched the Basistha Riverfront Development Project in Guwahati, an initiative to restore a degraded stretch of the Basistha River and transform it into an environmentally sustainable public space.

The project, inaugurated on Friday by Brahmaputra Board Chairman Ranbir Singh, will be implemented along the riverfront adjacent to the Board's headquarters in the Basistha area. Local residents, senior citizens, and officials attended the launch event.

According to the Board, the initiative has been conceived to address the deteriorating condition of the riverbank and the adjoining left-bank road-cum-embankment, which had gradually turned into an unofficial dumping gro...