MONORAIL IN THE OFFING IN GUWAHATI

The Capital city of Assam, Guwahati may soon have fast and high tech public transport in the form of Monorail running on the tracks. A public sector enterprise, Engineering Project (India) Ltd, will submit a formal proposal to the Assam government to set up a monorail system connecting City Centre to the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in its first phase.

“We had a mouth with Scoomy, Malaysia for taking up the Monorail projects in India. We will design the entire structure and Design of Monorail according to the Technology from Malaysia on rolling stock,” said SPS Bakshi Chief Managing Director of Engineering Project (India) Ltd.
The monorail system reportedly shall be suitable for the traffic management aspects of Guwahati because of the congested roads and increasing burden of population on the public transportation facilities.

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