Lok Sabha Question No. 5291 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-25
Subject: Development of Major Ports
Ministry: SHIPPING
Asked by: Sumedhanand Saraswati

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SHIPPING

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5291

To BE ANSWERED oN 2s'n JULY,2019

## DEVELOPMENT OF MAJOR PORTS

## 5291. SHRI SUMEDHANAND SARSWATI:

Will the Minister of SHIPPING be pleased  to state: qj( qft-q-{-{ qtrt

- (a) whether the Government proposes to develop major porls in tl're country keeping  in view the huge potential  of rivers for inland water transport;
- if so, the details thereof; (b)
- the details of the rivers likely to be included  in the said project, State-wise;  and (c)
- the extent  to which the transport cost is likely to be reduced  therefrom? (d)

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR SHIPPING (SHRI  MANSUKH MANDAVIYA)

- (a) &(b) Development of infrastructure in the major ports are taken uF, based on feasibility study. Keeping in view the huge potential  of lnland Water Transport  (l! fD as one of the factor.
- (c) To promote lnland Water Transport (lV\[) in the country as an economical, environment friendly supplementary mode of transport  to rail anC road, 111 inland waterways  were declared as National Waterways under the National Watenrrays  Act, 2016. Some of these National Waterurrays (NWs) provide hinterland connectivity with major ports and are likely to contribute  to their development.  The details of these NWs are at Annexure-1.
- (d) As per the Report on "lntegrated  National  Waterways Transportation  Grid", in 2014 the cost comparison  between IWT mode and other dominant modes of surface transport given here under shows significant  cost saving in transportation  of goods through  IWT mode.

| Mode    |   Railways |   Hiqhwavs |   IWT |
|---------|------------|------------|-------|
| Freight |       1.36 |        2.5 |   106 |

## Annexurell

## Maior Ports connectivitv  to hinterland throuqh National waterwavs

|   SI. no. | Major Ports            | Connectivity with National Waterways (NWs)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
|-----------|------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Kolkata Port Trust     | 1. NW-1 (Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hoogli river system - 1620 km) with Farakka (WB)-Sahibganj (Jharkhand)-Patna (Bihar)- Varanasi (UP) and Prayagraj (UP) 2.NW-2 (river Brahmaputra 891 km) with NW-97 (Sunderbans-172 km) (WB) via lndo-Bangladesh Protocol route through Bangladesh (741.6 km) - Dhubri (Assam) - Pandu, Guwahati (Assam) - Jogighopa (Assam) - Neamati (Assam) and Sadiya (Assam). 3. NW-86 (river RoopnarayanT2 km) in West Bengal. |
|         2 | Cochin Port Trust      | NW-3 (West coast canal from Kozhikode to Kollam, Champakara canal &Udhoygamandal canal - 205 + 165 km), NW-9(Alapuzha - Kottayam - Athirampuzha canal - 40 km) in the State of Kerala.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
|         3 | Mormugao Port Trust    | NW- 27 (Cumberjua canal), NW-68 (river Mandovi) and NW- 111 (river Zuan) in the State of Goa.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
|         4 | Kamarajar Port Limited | NW-4 (Godavari, Kakinada canal, Eluru canal Krishna river, Commamur canal, Bakingham - Puduchery canal- 2Bg0 km) in the States of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and U.T. of Puducherry.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |

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