GUWAHATI, Jun 15: Chief Minister Kalikho Pul has finally begun the preparatory works for construction of the Arunachal State Guest House in Rupnagar in Guwahati.
Chief Minister, accompanied by Mechuka MLA Pasang Dorjee Sona inspected the site where the PWD is currently fencing to demarcate the boundary on Wednesday.
The land was kept idle for years despite the land being handed over to Arunachal by the Assam government in 1998.
On three different occasions, the Arunachal government had to surrender the land occupancy as it failed to construct the state guesthouse within the fixed time. The Assam government had set the condition that land be used for purpose of construction of Arunachal guesthouse within three years of allotment, failing which the land would be reverted back.
The process to reclaim the land began on May 24 during the swearing in day of Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. Pul requested his Assam counterpart for a land to be identified for construction of Arunachal guesthouse in Guwahati city as the need for such facilities was a long pending demand of the people.