India, Nov. 11 -- Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday visited Morigaon and Kamrup districts to review land reclamation projects and steps taken to strengthen river embankments and prevent erosion.

After inspecting projects to prevent riverbank erosion and reclaim land along the Brahmaputra river, he said Assam loses an estimated 8,000 hectares of land to riverbank erosion every year, even as siltation creates new land elsewhere.

"Our strategy has two parts: strengthening embankments to protect vulnerable areas from erosion, and developing newly formed land for productive use in agriculture and tourism," he said on X.

In Morigaon, Sarma reviewed ongoing and proposed land reclamation projects at Chanaka. "With work on a 1...