India’s First Riverine Lighthouses to Come Up on Brahmaputra (NW-2) as Sarbananda Sonowal Lays Foundation Stones

• First-ever inland waterway lighthouses in India to be built on the Brahmaputra (National Waterway-2) at four ghats in Assam.
• Joint project of Directorate General of Lighthouses & Lightships (DGLL) and Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) at ₹84 crore.
• Dual purpose: navigational safety for cargo/passenger vessels and river tourism anchors in the Northeast.
• Marks shift of India's lighthouse regime from purely maritime to riverine application — examinable as a "first-of-its-kind" Prelims fact.