Regional Analysis

RIVER FRONT DEVELOPMENT AT GUWAHATI

Promenades/ Walking Arcades

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  Tourist reception centre including an arrival plaza giving the feeling of entry to the destination, information and booking centre.
  
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  Promenade for a stretch of 1 km around the lake with stone paving of 2 m width interspersed with grass in between the rubble.
  
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  Landscaping: The entire stretch of the promenade is proposed to be landscaped with bush height shrubs mixed with flowering trees.
  
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  Covered relaxation decks: The walking arcade will be interspersed with projected decks towards the lakeside. The decks will be primarily for relaxation, viewing and small picnics. The decks will be covered with sloping roofs and have seating and drinking water facilities.
  
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  Lighting: The promenade will be well lit with lampposts of pedestrian scale and not more than 3.6 m in height.
  

Haats

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  The design will be flexible in nature to accommodate various types of uses. The haats are covered, but open in nature.
  
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  Activities: Weekends will house full-scale haat activities with tourist specific sales. Essential facilities market would be in the form of a village market. There will be shopping facilities, handicrafts stalls, local food stalls etc. However, on normal days and non-tourist seasons, the haats will be functional by housing local weekly markets. There will shops, which sell the traditional metal jewellery etc. Women will run the stall.
  
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  Special tourist interest centre: On special tourist seasons, the haats will house an artists work centre along with the handicrafts centre where tourists will get the feel of how local handicrafts and local style paintings are made and the stall will be an economic activity for the local craftsmen. The materials required for painting will be given free of cost to the artists and the revenue from the same will go to the artists.
  

The haats would house:

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  12 numbers of huts
  
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  2 Small Restaurants, 1 Big Restaurant, 2 Snack Bars with Soft Drink/Ice cream counters, 1 Administration Office, 1 Entrance Space
  
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  2 Toilet Complexes on either side (each having 4 toilets each for Men and Women)
  
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  Ticket Counter & Guard Hut
  
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  Parking Space in front of the Restaurant/Entrance block
  
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  5 feet wide Pathways along
  
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  8 Tented Kiosks
  
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  Landscaping/floriculture at the side
  

River cruises

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  Luxury Cruise Vessel can also be linked up for cruising between Guwahati and Dibrugarh on the Brahmaputra, which is a National Waterway, with navigation channel for at least 330 days a year to be maintained by Inland Waterways Authority of India. Such a tour to be promoted for the high-end customers in domestic and overseas market.
  
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  Development of full fledged jetties with berthing, landing facilities, (floating jetties wherever high river receding problem there) and ancilliary facilities at Dhubri, Goalpara, Tarabari Ghat, Sualkuchi, Guwahati, Steemer ghat- Tezpur, Silghat for Kaziranga, Majuli & Jorhat- Nimatighat (both already under Majuli proposals) and Dibsrugarh-Dikhou Mukh. Small floating jetties- 10 nos at Singri Hill side, Ganesh pahar village and enroute few villages, for tourists to visit.
  

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  Tourist Cruise Vessel for short distance from Guwahati- this will be a day activity and can be moderately priced so that a lot of tourists can enjoy the Cruise.
  

The costs for the proposed development for the Brahmaputra River Tourism development and the proposed phase of development are as follows:

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   Costs and Phasing: Brahmaputra River Tourism Development