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Trial runs are all set to start from mid-February, officials added.“GMDA would have been happy if the Prime Minister could have inaugurated the Guwahati aerial tramway during his visit. But considering the ground reality and delays caused by redesigning of the project, Modi-ji could not be invited to open the aerial tramway,” a senior GMDA official told TOI on Friday. But work then abruptly came to a halt in 2011 following objections from the Archaeological Survey of India, which said the project posed a threat to Urvashi Island in the Brahmaputra. Guwahati: The aerial passenger cable car service connecting north and south Guwahati over the Brahmaputra — which is all set to be the longest ropeway service across a river in the country — will miss its date with Prime Minister Narendra Modi Reports were doing the rounds that the Rs 56.08-crore Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) project would be inaugurated by Modi, who arrived here on Friday, but senior officials of the urban development body said the service will be ready for formal opening only by April. The basic structure of project was redesigned and work subsequently began again in January, 2017.GMDA sources said that the first team of experts from the Garaventa AG, Switzerland, the safety certificate issuance agency, will land in India in mid-February, after which the trial runs will be conducted in their presence..