Lok Sabha Question No. 2695 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-27
Subject: Monitoring of National Waterways
Ministry: SHIPPING
Asked by: MANSHANKAR NINAMA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SHIPPING

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2695 TO BE ANSWERED ON 27TH DECEMBER,2O18

## MONITORING OF NAT!ONAL WATERWAYS

2695. SHRI MANSHANKAR  NINAMA:

Will the Minister of SHIPPING be pleased to state:

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- (a) whether the Government  is having the details of current status and transport efficiency of developed National Wateruuays;
- (c) whether  the Government has set up any systern for the regular sr.rpervision  and for deciding the transport  efficiency of such waterways  and if so, the details tlrereof; and
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (d) the present number of such functional waterways  along with the waterways  being used regularly  for transportation  pu rpose?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF SHIPPING (sHRl PON. RADHAKRISHNAN)

- (a) to (d): Out of the 111 National Watenruays  (NWs) declared  under the National Watenrrrays Act, 2016, 13 NWs are operational for shipping and navigation and cargo/passenger vessels are moving on them. The details of operational NlWs are at Annex.

lnland Waterways  Authority  of lndia (lWAl) has put in place a structured  management and monitoring  system  with competent  and experienced  professionals,  t:o ensure that the projects on NWs are qualitatively executed in a time bound rnanner.  ln addition,  the progress of execution  of projects is regularly  reviewed at various levels within lWAl and the Government.

lnland WaterTransport  (lWT) mode is widely recognized as envirorment  friendly and cost effective mode of transport. As per RITES Report of 2014 on lrrtegrated  National Waterways Transportation  Grid, some of the important benefits of IWT nrode compared  to rail and road transportation  are fuel efficiency and cost savings as given klelow:

- i.1 Litre of fuel moves 24 tonne - km on road, 95 tonne-km on rail and 215 tonne-km on lWT.

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ln addition to the economic and environmental benefits, IWT aims to create for the shippers  and logistic players, an alternative to the two dominant modes of transport  viz. road and rail.

## Details of Operational  National  Waterwavs

| sl. No.     | National Waterway (NW) No.                                                                                                                                                   | Length (km)   | Location (S)                           | Location (S)   |
|-------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------|----------------------------------------|----------------|
| 1.          | NW-1 : Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hooghly River System (Haldia - Allahabad)                                                                                                            | 1620          | Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bengal       | Bihar, West    |
| 2.          | NW-2. Brahmaputra River (Dhubri - Sadiya)                                                                                                                                    | 891           | Assam                                  |                |
| 3.          | NW-3: West Coast Canal (Kottapuram - Kollam), Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals                                                                                              | 205           | Kerala                                 |                |
| 4.          | NW-4: Phase-ldevelopment of the stretch Muktiyala to Vijyawada of river Krishna                                                                                              | 82            | Andhra Pradesh                         |                |
| 5. 6. 7. 8. | Waterways in Maharashtra i) NW-10 (Amba River) ii) NW-83 (Rajpuri Creek) iii) NW-85 (Revadanda Creek - Kundalika River System) iv) NW-91 (Shastri river-Jaigad creek system) | 45 31 31 52   | Maharashtra                            |                |
| 9. 10.      | National Waterways in Goa NW-68 - Mandovi - Usgaon Bridge to Arabian Sea (41 km) NW-111 Zuari- Sanvordem Bridge to Marmugao Port (50 km).                                    | 41 50         | Goa                                    |                |
| 11. 12.     | National Waterways in Gujarat NW-73- Narmada river- NW-100- Tapi river                                                                                                       | 226 436       | Gujarat &Maharastra                    |                |
| 13.         | Sunderbans Waterways (NW-97): Namkhana to AtharaBankiKhal in West Bengal.                                                                                                    | 172           | West Bengal (through Bangladesh Route) | lndo- Protocol |

Annex.