Silchar, Feb. 3: The Silchar Municipal Board has drawn up a Rs 6.5-crore scheme to spruce up this south Assam town and upgrade its civic utilities.

Board chairperson Bithika Dev today said the necessary funds would be garnered from both the Centre and the state government as well as from public sector units and local area development funds of parliamentarians.

She said one of the schemes entailed the construction of a modern shopping complex at downtown Nazirpatty road with a parking lot.

Another scheme is to overhaul Gandhi Park, a 50-acre green expanse, by utilising a corpus worth Rs 85 lakh. Dev said the public sector Hindustan Paper Corporation (HPC) would extend a grant of Rs 25 lakh to enable the municipality ring the park with a high-security perimeter wall.

The state?s tourism department would provide the remaining sum of Rs 60 lakh to beautify the park?s lake and gardens.

The chairperson also disclosed that a segment of this fund would also be utilised to repair at least 22 lanes in the residential localities of the burgeoning town and 37 other streets.