You must have visited the Singapore Riverfront or the Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. By March next year, Guwahati will have its very own Riverfront. Construction is going on in full swing for the Brahmaputra Riverfront development project.
From being a dull, run-of-the-mill riverfront to a swanky, upscale landmark destination that is what this stretch along the banks of the Brahmaputra in Guwahati is going to get transformed into.
Stretching across a 1.2 km area from Kacharighat on one side to the new DC bungalow on the other the Brahmaputra Riverfront will have something for everyone.
The entire stretch has been divided into 19 modules:
Children’s Play Area – A dedicated space for children being built in the shape of a piano.
Fragrance garden – with a variety of flowers. Just the right place for you if you are looking for a space for some smell therapy.
Edible garden – this is the place where you can pluck and eat medicinal herbs and plants.
Zen Garden –or Japanese rock gardens specially curated for those who like carefully controlled settings of raked sand or rocks and precisely clipped shrubs.
Bird Feeding Area – being made in the lines of the special bird feeding spots found in Delhi and Gateway of India in Mumbai.
Gazebos, food kiosks, walking and cycling tracks, and open gym are some of the other amenities that the riverfront will offer.
For those who want to touch and feel Brahmaputra’s water, now you do not have to walk down the bank to the river to touch the water. 2 fountains have been specially designed to be fed by the water from the Brahmaputra.
These 2 fountains will spew Brahmaputra’s water.
A skywalk, premium fine dining restaurants and a huge aquarium something like what you see in Sentosa island in Singapore is also being considered by Guwahati Smart City Ltd, the implementing agency.
Guwahati Smart City Ltd and ITD Cementation India, the multinational construction company that is doing the construction work, has been careful enough to minimise the impact on the environment, ecology and the river bed. Special construction technology has been used to ensure river bed protection, and proper water channels have been made to avoid any water logging on the city side.
It was earlier estimated that 150 trees will have to be chopped to make way for the project but only 35 trees were cut. What is more heartening to know is that GSCL plans to plant 14,000 trees. This will definitely make the riverfront development project the green lung of Guwahati.
Being built at a cost of Rs 327 crore by ITD Cementation India, a multinational construction company, there are at least 450 people working on the project every day to meet the completion deadline of March next year.
The work for the facelift was started in 2022.
In case you are thinking what will happen to the age-old KachariGhat market. Well GSCL plans to build a single-storey market area to accommodate upto 50 fish vendors. There would also be space for the fruit and vegetable vendors so all of them continue to earn their livelihood but in a much more clean and organised set up.
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