Central infrastructure projects worth around Rs 55,000 crore have been sanctioned for Assam in the past year, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday, outlining a series of road, ropeway and healthcare initiatives at various stages of approval and execution.
Addressing a press conference here, Sarma said the Centre had assured infrastructure projects worth Rs 80,000 crore during the second Advantage Assam investment summit last year, and approvals for projects worth Rs 55,000 crore have already been secured.
The ‘Advantage Assam 2.0 Investment and Infrastructure Summit’, organised in February 2025, had sought to position the state as a key investment destination in the Northeast.
Sarma said tenders have been floated for the Kamakhya Ropeway Project connecting Kamakhya railway station to Kamakhya temple. “When the PM visits Assam next, he will lay the foundation for it,” he said.
He added that the Centre is likely to approve within days a Rs 1,500-crore elevated corridor project linking Guwahati airport to Jalukbari, the main entry point to the city.
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A Rs 14,000-crore proposal to four-lane the national highway from Baihata Chariali to Tezpur is at the final stage of approval, Sarma said, expressing hope that clearance would come soon.
On the stalled Kamakhya corridor project, he said work is expected to resume after expert studies found no adverse ecological impact. Following opposition to the project, the Gauhati High Court had asked IIT Guwahati and the National Institute of Hydrology to examine possible environmental consequences. “They said there would be no impact,” the Chief Minister claimed.
He further said infrastructure upgrades are under way at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital worth Rs 2,200 crore and at Assam Medical College and Hospital worth Rs 600 crore.
Another highway project is being planned from the semiconductor plant at Jagiroad in Morigaon district to the Bhutan border via Udalguri, including a new bridge over the Brahmaputra. “This project is under active consideration of the Centre. These strategic assets will also be used by civilians,” Sarma said.
Separately, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister, on Friday approved construction of a 34-km twin-tube road-cum-rail tunnel under the Brahmaputra between Gohpur and Numaligarh at a cost of Rs 18,662 crore, billed as India’s first such project.
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