Jorhat (Assam), Jan 19 (ANI): Boats even today continue to the lifeline of the world's largest river island Majuli in Assam.
"Everything to the island including vehicles, people, cows and gas cylinders go to the island through this route by these boats," said Rahul Kumar Das, a worker on one of the boats.
Residents of the Majuli island who get 80 per cent of their daily use items from Jorhat say that the numbers of ferries need to be increased.
"Majuli island has over 1, 50, 000 people and goods of daily use for us have to be transported through these boats. 80 per cent of the goods are transported through this route. We need commercial vessels and cargo vessels. We have few ships that transport goods to the Majuli Island from Jorhat," said Sorab Borah, a resident of Majuli Island.
Boats are the only link to the world for those living in the island engulfed by the mighty water of the Brahmaputra River.
Brahmaputra River is among world's most ferocious. For the people of the region, small ferries plying from the mainland to the island offer the most economical and time saving mode of transport.
Bound by the Brahmaputra to the south and the Subansiri and Kherketia in the North Majuli has a population of about 150,000 people.
The only way to reach this island is through a huge ferry that is packed with cars, scooters, cycles, gas cylinders, and food material. y Peter Alex Todd (ANI)
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