Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday inaugurated a flyover named after Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder, Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, connecting a busy, otherwise congested stretch from Cycle Factory junction to Lal Ganesh Bazar in Guwahati.
“This flyover will reduce the travel time from Pragjyotishpur Medical College to NH 27 drastically and decongest one of Guwahati’s densely populated areas,” the Chief Minister said.
“Built at a cost of over Rs 376 crore, the 2.8 km-long, three-lane flyover was completed in just 26 months against a 30-month deadline. The project is equipped with a modern “BUG” structure, service roads, drainage systems, connecting roads and parking facilities,” Sarma said.
The flyover provides a direct and uninterrupted link between Arya Nagar and NH-27, easing traffic congestion on the busy stretch from Lal Ganesh to the Lokhra-Garbhanga Road.
Notably, Guwahati has, in recent years, witnessed rapid infrastructure expansion, with about 30 operational flyovers and vehicular bridges spanning across the city’s busy traffic corridors.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter) ahead of the inauguration, the Chief Minister said that while many may question why a flyover in Guwahati was being named after Mookerjee, the answer lay in a lesser-known chapter of Assam’s history.
“During the Partition period in 1947, the Muslim League had planned to include the whole of Bengal, including Calcutta, and the Northeast within East Pakistan. Syama Prasad Mookerjee, along with Gopinath Bordoloi and others, led the political and intellectual resistance against the move and worked to keep Assam within India,” he stated.
