Kamakhya Temple, Guwahati – Connectivity
The Temple is located at about
1.5 Kms from Kamakhya Bus Stop, 3 Kms from Kamakhya Railway Station, 7 Kms from
Guwahati Railway Station, 12 Kms from Guwahati Rupnath Brahma Inter-State Bus
Terminal (ISBT) and 18 Kms from Guwahati Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi
International Airport. The Kamakhya temple is situated on lofty Nilachal Hills
and in the very center of Guwahati town in Kamrup district of Assam, India. Buses
and Autorickshaws frequently ply connecting it to various parts of Guwahati.
Guwahati is well connected to rest of India by all means of Transport.
By Road:
National Highway 27 connects
Guwahati with the states West
Bengal, Bihar &
Rest of India.
This highway connects Guwahati with Silchar in
Barak Valley Assam and
further connecting the city to the states of Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura. National Highway 17 from
Sevoke in West Bengal terminates in Jalukbari and
connects Guwahati with the major cities of Dhubri and Cooch
Behar. National Highway 15 and
its several secondary roads runs through both the banks of River Brahmaputra
and connects the Guwahati with the cities of Tezpur, Jorhat,
Dibrugarh
in Upper
Assam and the states of Arunachal
Pradesh and Nagaland.
The public transportation is
well developed in the city. Buses are the major means of public transport in
Guwahati. The state owned Assam State Urban Transport Corporation, a subsidiary
of Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC)
and private operators provide the city bus services within the city. ASTC also
operates the Volvo air-conditioned bus
services within the city as well as to the LGBI airport.
In addition to this, there are a
number of private bus operators which regularly run day and night bus services
from Guwahati to neighboring towns and cities within Assam and
other Northeastern States. Rupnath Brahma Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT),
located at Betkuchi area on NH-37, is the most significant terminal cum transit
point for buses plying between Guwahati and other destinations in Assam and
Northeast India. The areas of Adabari and Paltan Bazaar also act as nodal
points in providing bus services to towns and cities in Assam and adjoining
states.
By Train:
The city of Guwahati and the
northeastern region falls under the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR)
Zone of the Indian Railways, the headquarters of which is in Maligaon, near
Nilachal Hills, in the northwest of the city. The Guwahati railway station,
located in Bazaar area of Guwahati, is the major railway station of the
city. It lies along the Barauni-Guwahati Line and Guwahati–Lumding section,
categorized as an A-1 railway station under Lumding railway division.
There are three more railway stations in the city – the Kamakhya
Junction for passenger and goods services, the New Guwahati
Junction (near Noonmati) for only freight services and Azara Railway Station,
also primarily used for freight services.
There are regular trains
connecting Guwahati to and from other major cities of the country. Rajdhani
Express, Poorvottar Sampark Kranti Express, Brahmaputra
Mail, Kamrup Express, Northeast Express, Saraighat
Express and Garib Rath are some significant trains
running to and from Guwahati. The train with the longest route in India, Vivek
Express, which runs from Dibrugarh
in Upper Assam to Kanyakumari in southern tip of India
passes through Guwahati.
By Air:
Guwahati is served by the Lokpriya
Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, in Borjhar,
west from the heart of the city. With all major domestic and international
airlines flying into Guwahati, it is the thirteenth busiest airport in India in
total passenger traffic. Daily and weekly flights are available to Delhi,
Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Bangkok,
Singapore, Dhaka, Paro and other important destinations.
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