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WATSUPPTODAY DESK
19-05-2023

An MoU was signed here on Friday to connect seven religious sites around the city through waterways, officials said. The project will facilitate a 'hop on hop off' ferry service, which will connect the seven historic and religious sites of Kamakhya, Pandunath, Aswaklanta, Doul Govinda, Umananda, Chakreshwar and Auniati Satra around Guwahati, an official release said. The agreement for the development of a riverine-based religious tourism circuit was inked by the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), Sagarmala Development Corporation Limited (SDCL), Assam Tourism Development Corporation (ATDC), and the Department of inland waterways transport (DIWT), Government of Assam, it said.