• This additional funding will boost the ongoing USD 200 million ADB-supported Climate Resilient Brahmaputra Integrated Flood and Riverbank Erosion Risk Management Project in Assam, which was approved in October 2023.

Key Details:
Key Benefits: This additional funding will extend integrated flood and erosion risk management measures into 4 additional high priority reaches of the river.
Key Interventions: Under the expanded programme, the project will build 63.5 kilometers (kms) of riverbank protection, undertake adaptive and emergency works to bolster existing structures, pro-siltation measures to promote sediment deposition and rejuvenate eroded land, and upgraded and widened disaster-resilient flood embankments.