Sarma: MV Ganga Vilas will help NE’s transformation

The prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, officially flagged off the world's longest river cruise, the MV Ganga Vilas, on Friday. The cruise will travel from Varanasi, India to Dibrugarh, India via Dhaka, Bangladesh. Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Assam CM, said this will go a long way in realizing Prime Minister Modi's motto of "transformation of the northeast through transportation." The prime minister also inaugurated the maritime skill development center in Guwahati, which has been built at a cost of Rs 6 crore and laid the foundation stones for a Rs 208 crore ship repair center at Pandu. The ship repair facility will save a lot of valuable time as it takes more than a month for a ship to be transported to the Kolkata repair facility and back and is expected to result in huge savings in terms of money as the transportation cost of the ship, a dedicated road connecting the Pandu terminal to NH 27 will enable 24-hour connectivity.

Sarma: MV Ganga Vilas will help NE’s transformation
The prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, officially flagged off the world's longest river cruise, the MV Ganga Vilas, on Friday. The cruise will travel from Varanasi, India to Dibrugarh, India via Dhaka, Bangladesh. Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Assam CM, said this will go a long way in realizing Prime Minister Modi's motto of "transformation of the northeast through transportation." The prime minister also inaugurated the maritime skill development center in Guwahati, which has been built at a cost of Rs 6 crore and laid the foundation stones for a Rs 208 crore ship repair center at Pandu. The ship repair facility will save a lot of valuable time as it takes more than a month for a ship to be transported to the Kolkata repair facility and back and is expected to result in huge savings in terms of money as the transportation cost of the ship, a dedicated road connecting the Pandu terminal to NH 27 will enable 24-hour connectivity.