Inland Water Transport
ROADS
The major modes of transportation in the state are roads, railways, airways and inland waterways.
Assam state is connected by approximately 69,000 km of road network. The major towns are connected by national highways.
National Highway Length:(in KM) - 2034.24
AIRWAYS
There are five civil airports at Guwahati,Tezpur, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Silchar and North Lakhimpur, There is only one international airport (Loka Priya Gopinath Borodolai International Airport) at Guwahati.
RAILWAYS
All the major towns of the state like Dibruharh, Tinsukia, Jorhat, Nagoan, Guwahati, Tezpur, Bangigaon etc are linked with railways. There is approximately 2435 km of railways link across the state.
WATERWAYS
River Brahamaputra and Barak rivers are used as a vast network of waterways. These two rivers effectively fulfill the transport needs of the state.
Routes of Commercial Service
Guwahati-Calcutta-Guwahati, Guwahati-Sirajganj-Guwahati, Guwahati-Narayanganj-Guwahati, Karimganj-Calcutta-Karimganj
The infrastructure development in the State has been slow. It has been lagging behind almost
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every State of the country except that of Orissa, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh , Jammu & Kashmir and other North Eastern States.
Power generation and distribution is not adequate to support the growth of industry in the State. The conditions of roads and bridges are not at all conducive for promoting any worthwhile economic activity like tourism. These deficiencies in infrastructure have to be attended on priority if economic activities and services are to be supported and encouraged. The power & energy and the following linkages provides on the existing infrastructure in the State.
POWER AND ENERGY
Assam possesses immense potential for development of her power sector based on Hydel, Natural gas, Oil and Coal resources.
Assam State Electricity Board was originally constituted on 1st June 1958 in the composite state of Assam under Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948. But the existing ASEB was reconstituted in 1975 when the state of Assam was bifurcated into Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram. The ASEB is responsible for generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in the state of Assam.
ASEB has six installed projects with the total installed capacity of 574 MW against the peak demand of 621 MW. The power supply position in the state is expected to improve considerably in the coming years with the materialisation of projects under the state sector like Borgolai Thermal Power project (120 MW), Karbi Langpi Project (100 MW) and Amguri Combined Cycle Gas Based project (90 MW).
In the Central sector, NEEPCO has installed and commissioned Kopili HEP (250 MW) and Kathalguri Gas Based Power Project (291 MW). NEEPCO is currently taking up construction of Kopili 2nd stage (25 MW) and it plans to take up the Lower Kopili (150 MW).
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