New Delhi, March 5 -- Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday laid the foundation stones for four river lighthouses along the banks of the Brahmaputra river, the first-of-its-kind infrastructure on an inland waterway in the country.
The ceremony was held at Lachit Ghat, Guwahati, which was jointly organised by the Directorate General of Lighthouses and Lightships (DGLL) and the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), under the aegis of the MoPSW.
The sites for the proposed lighthouses include Bogibeel in Dibrugarh district, Pandu in Kamrup (Metro) district, Silghat in Nagaon district, all along the south bank of the river, and Biswanath Ghat in Biswanath district, the only one in the north bank.
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