Lok Sabha Question No. 232 (STARRED), answered on 2018-12-27
Subject: Development of Facilities at Ports
Ministry: SHIPPING
Asked by: LALLU SINGH, REKHA ARUN VERMA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SHIPPING

## LOK SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION NO.-232 TO BE ANSWERD ON 27TH DECEMBER,2O18

## DEVELOPMENT OF FACILITIES  AT PORTS

-232.  SHRI LALLU SINGH:

SHRIMATI REKHA VERMA,

Will the Minister of SHIPPING be pleased  to state:

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- (a) the funds allocated,  released and utilized for development  of port facilities in the main ports of Uttar Pradesh during the current  year.
- (b) whether the Government is aware of delay in implementation  of some projects in various ports of Uttar Pradesh;
- (c) if so, the details  thereof and the reasons therefor  along with the reaction of the Government thereto; and
- (d) the steps taken/proposed  to be taken by the Government  for cornpleting  the projects at the said ports at the earliest?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF SHIPPING (SHRI NITIN GADKARI)

- (a) to (d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## Statement  referred to in replv to  parts (a)  to  (d)  of Lok Sabha Starred  Question No.*232 for 27.12.2018 raised bv Shri Lallu Sinqh & Shrimati Rekha Verma.  Hon'ble M.P. on "Development of Facilities at Ports"

ln the major ports, projects relating to capacity expansion,  modernlzation  of infrastructure,  rail and road connectivity  at the port are undertaken  by these  ports from their own funds or by raising loan and in certain cases through Public Private  Partnership (PPP) mode. However,  because  of the peculiar nature of Kolkata  Port which requires substantial amount of maintenance  dredging,  Government  of lndia has been supporting  Kolkata Port by providing  dredging subsidy  through budgetary  support. ln addition,  four Ports namely, V.O. Chidambaranar,  Cochin, Mormugao  and Chennai are being provided budgetary support for various  projects.  The details of fund released to the five major  ports  in the above mentioned projects in the last three years are given  below:

Rs. in Crore)

|   st. No. | Name of the Port   | Project                                                                  | i 201 5-16   | 2016-17   | 2017-18   |
|-----------|--------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------|-----------|-----------|
|         1 | Kolkata            | Dredging Subsidy                                                         | 275.55       | i62 50    | 167.39    |
|         2 | v.o Chidambaranar  | Capital Dredging and Development of Outer Harbour                        | 27.00        | 15 00     | 15.00     |
|         3 | Cochrn             | Road Connectivity to ICTT at Vallarpadam and Construction of Subway over | i ;          | 400       | 13 31     |
|         4 | Mormugao           | Construction of Four lane Port connectivitv Road                         |              | 5.00      | 10.00     |
|         5 | Chennai            | Coastal Road Protection Work                                             | 10.00        | 500       | 14.74     |

ln addition  to the above,  funds released  to the ports under Sagarmala programme  during  201516 to 2017-18 are at Annex.

Uttar Pradesh  is a land-locked  State. There are no sea ports in Uttar Pradesh. However, multimodal  terminals  and inter modal terminals, which are in the nature of a river ports, are being constructed under the Jal Marg Vikas Project  (JMVP).  The JMVP is being implemented  at cost of Rs. 5369 crore by the lnland Waterways  Authority of lndia (lWAl) for augmentation of navigation capacity of National  Waterway-1 on the Haldia-Varanasi  stretch  of river Ganga. The locations of the multi modal terminals is Varanasi (Uttar  Pradesh),  Sahibganj (Jharkhand) and Haldia (West Bengal) and intermodal terminals at Ghazipur (Uttar Pradesh) and Kalughat (Bihar). Work on the multimodal terminal  at Varanasi  has been completed as per schedule and the terminal was inaugurated by the Hon'ble Prime Minister on 12th

November, 20'lB. Land acquisition  process  for Ghazipr-rr intermodal  tern'rinal is ongoing  and out of the 8.917 ha of land required for the terminal, 5.103 ha has been a,lquired by the State Government of UP and handed  overto IWAI. The mapping and survey of the remaining  3.8'13 ha of land  got delayed due to floods.

The foundation  stone  for development  of the National Waterway-40  (river Ghagra)  from Faizabad to Manjhighat was laid on 9th October, 2018. The development  of NW-40 includes monthly surveys, fairway development and floating terminals  which are to be taken  up in 201920.

For the Kumbh Mela, 2019, lwAl in consultation with the Government of u.P. is providing 4 floating terminals on NW-110 (river Yantuna) and 5 temporary  Jetties at Chatnag, Sirsa,  Sitamarhi,  Vindhyachal  and Chunar between  Prayagraj  and Varatrasi on NW-1 (river Ganga)  for embarkment  and dis-embarkment  of piigrirns.

Annex

Funds released  to the Major Ports under the Sagarmala  Programme during 2015-16 to

2017-18.

(Rs. in Crore)

| s!. NO.   | Port              | Project                                                                                                                 | 201s-16   | 2016-17   | | 2017-18   |
|-----------|-------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|------------------|
| 1         | Cochin            | Refurbishment Capacity enhancement of Coastal liquid terminal COT and NTB                                               | 7.48      | 5.29      |                  |
| 2         | Kolkata           | lmprovement of road connectivity to facilitate trade and port users i                                                   |           | 3.75      |                  |
| a         | Kolkata           | Upgradation of the track 1G 12-14-16-18-1 s-20-21- 22 and 23 at EJC yard i                                              | i-- -     | 7.00      | 400              |
| 4         | Kolkata           | Upgrade of existing rail network                                                                                        |           | 2.00      | 1.00             |
| 5         | Kolkata           | ZnO naitway trne fr-om I Durgachak take off point to I 'A' cabin at Durgachak at I                                      | ZOOO      |           |                  |
| b         | Kolkata           | Upgrading berth2 and 11 i KPD for coastal                                                                               | 2.51      |           |                  |
| 7         | v.o Chidambaranar | Dredging the dock basin for coastal cargo berth at VOCPT -Dredging in front of dedicated coastal berth                  |           |           | 10.44            |
| 8         | v.o Chidambaranar | Development andl Operation of a full-fledged Truck Parking Terminal adjacent to NHTA opposite i tq Fist,gr'"! r9!ggg_ _ |           | 10.00     |                  |
| I         | v.o Chidambaranar | j Coastal berth with dredged i depth of 10.0m to handle vessels up to 15000 DWT -                                       | 1s 00     |           | 14.99            |
| 10        | Visakhapatnam     | Construction Berth of coastal                                                                                           | 30.00     |           |                  |
| 11        | Visakhapatnam     | Construction of grade I H-7 area to ! __.- _,,_.J-, rator from                                                          |           | 14eB      |                  |

|    |                       | Port connectivity Road by passinq Convent Junction                           |       |       |       |
|----|-----------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------|-------|-------|
| 12 | Visakhapatnam         | 2 to 4 laning of port connectivity to NH Phase ll road 5                     | 20.00 |       |       |
| 13 | Chennai               | Coastal Carqo Berth                                                          | 15.00 | 12.00 |       |
| 14 | Chennai               | Development of Paved storage yard at Chenttai Port for handling exPort carqo |       |       | 13 50 |
| 15 | Chennai               | Construction of Bunker berth                                                 |       |       | 981   |
| 16 | Jawaharlal Nehru Port | Construction of Coastal Berth                                                |       |       | 12 50 |
| 17 | Mormugao              | Passenger Jetty at Vasco Bav                                                 |       |       | 500   |
| 1B | Mormugao              | Full rake wagon handling line with paving 30m wide                           |       | B,O   |       |