Lok Sabha Question No. 175 (STARRED), answered on 2016-07-28
Subject: Transportation through Waterways
Ministry: SHIPPING
Asked by: PRAHLAD SINGH PATEL, Shrirang Appa Barne

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SHIPPING

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.175 TO BE ANSWERED ON 28 th JULY, 2016 TRANSPORTATION THROUGH WATERWAYS

## *175.   SHRI PRAHLAD SINGH PATEL: SHRI SHRIRANG APPA BARNE:

Will the Minister of SHIPPING be pleased to state:

## पोतप�रवहनमंत्

- (a) the details of waterways being used in the country along with length thereof and the number of ships/vessels being run thereon along with the quantum/type of cargo being transported, State/UT-wise;
- (b) the details of funds allocated/released by the Government for their development during the last three years and the current year, State/UT-wise;
- (c) whether the Government proposes to increase the target of transportation through waterways in the country from existing 6 per cent to 15 per cent and if so, the details thereof; (d) whether the big waterways such as river Ganga may be used for medium-size cargo/passenger ships and if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) the other steps taken/being taken by the Government to fully utilise the transportation potential of waterways in the country?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF SHIPPING (SHRI NITIN GADKARI)

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

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (A) TO (E) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.175 BY SHRI PRAHLAD SINGH PATEL & SHRI SHRIRANG APPA BARNE, M.PS ON 'TRANSPORTATION THROUGH WATERWAYS'

(a):  Under  the  National  Waterways  Act,  2016,  111  inland  waterways  have  been  declared  as National  Waterways  (NWs).    Both  private  and  government  owned  vessels  transporting  cargo, passengers, tourists, vehicles and those undertaking survey work and dredging are plying on the following six  NWs:-

- (i) NW-1: Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hooghly river system (Allahabad-Haldia, total length -1620 km) in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.
- (ii) NW-2: River Brahmaputra (Dhubri-Sadiya, total length - 891 km) in Assam.
- (iii) NW-3: West Coast Canal (Kottapuram-Kollam) along with Udyogmandal and Champakara Canals, total length -205 km in Kerala.
- (iv) NW-68: Mandovi (41 km) in Goa.
- (v) NW-111: Zuari (50 km) in Goa.
- (vi)      NW-97: Sundarbans Waterway (654 km): Indo Bangladesh Protocol Route.

The quantum and type of cargo transported on the above NWs during the last three years is in Table1.

Table-1: Quantity and type of cargo

( in Lakh M.T.)

|   Sl. No. | NW              |   2013-14 |   2014-15 | 2015-16   | Type of Cargo Moved                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
|-----------|-----------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | NW- 1           |     33.49 |     50.5  | 39.53     | Cement, Fly Ash, Iron ore, Iron Ore Fines, Coal, Steel Shed, Tyres, Iron Fines, Iron ingots, Galvanized Steel Plain Sheet, Stone Chips, Furnace oil, HF HSD, Lube Oil, Boulders, Pulses, Aluminum block, Sand, Ship block, Log, Pulses, Manganese Ore, Petroleum Coke, Coking coal, Rock Phosphate, Timber, Peas, Slag oil, Non coking coal, ODC etc. |
|         2 | NW- 2           |     24.75 |     24.92 | 6.02      | Bamboo, Bamboo products, Cement, Building material, fertilizers, Food grains, Milk &other essential commodities etc.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
|         3 | NW-3            |     10.66 |      8.44 | 10.61     | Phosphoric Acid, Sulphur, Zinc, Furnace oil, Rock Phosphate, Various commodities in containers, Furnace oil-bunkering, POL(bunkering to ships), Potable water, Lime shell with clay and other impurities, Liquid Effluent.                                                                                                                            |
|         4 | NW-68 & NW- 111 |      5.99 |      7.94 | 4.32*     | Iron ore.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
|         5 | NW-97           |     18    |     18.7  | 20.00     | Fly ash is transported from Kolkata to Bangladesh through this waterway.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |

(b):The details of funds allocated by the government for the development of Inland Water Transport (IWT) during 2013-14 to 2016-17 are at Table-2.

Table-2: Funds allocated for development of Inland Water Transport

| Year    | Revised Estimate                                                                                                             |
|---------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 013-14  | Rs. 144 crore                                                                                                                |
| 2014-15 | Rs. 117.917 crore                                                                                                            |
| 015-16  | Rs. 298.72 crore                                                                                                             |
| 2016-17 | Rs. 350 crore (Budget Estimate) Rs. 1000 crore to be raised through bonds by the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI). |

- (c): As per the National Perspective Plan prepared under the Sagarmalaprogramme, the share of coastal and inland waterways in the country's modal mix is to be increased from 6% to 12% by 2025 through a number of initiatives. The modal share of IWT Sector in the total transportation sector is 0.5% at present. The phase-wise development of 111 declared NWs for navigation and transportation will result in the IWT mode becoming a sustainable and commercially viable mode of transport. The various measures to develop the NWs  include  fairway development, construction of multimodal terminals, river navigation aids, jetties and terminals, dredging etc.
- (d):  To  enable  movement  of  medium  size  cargo  vessels  between  Haldia  and  Varanasi,  the  Jal Marg Vikas Project for capacity augmentation of NW-1 has been undertaken with technical and financial assistance of the World Bank. The project aims at developing the fairway of NW-1 to enable safe and environment friendly navigation of at least 1,500 ton vessels from Varanasi to Haldia.  2000  tons  capacity  cargo  vessels  are  already  moving  in  the  stretch  between  Haldia  to Farakka.

(e):A major step taken to exploit the vast potential of IWT in the country, is that 106 new waterways have been

Feasibility Study and Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) are being prepared for the waterways in a phased manner. Depending on the outcome of these studies, development of the NWs would be undertaken in a phased manner.  Based on the available reports, six NWs viz. NW- 4 (KakinadaPuducherry  Canal  along  with  Krishna  &  Godavari  rivers),  NW-  5  (East  Coast  Canal  with Brahmani&  Mahanadi  Delta),  NW-16  (Barak),  NW-37  (Gandak),  NW-40  (Ghagra),  NW-58 (Kosi) have been taken up for development in the first phase in addition to the 5 NWs that are already being used for cargo and/or passenger transportation.

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (e) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 175  ANSWERED ON 28th JULY, 2016 REGARDING RANSPORTATION THROUGH

## WATERWAYS

## LIST OF 111 - NATIONAL WATERWAYS

|   Sl. No | National Waterways   | National Waterways   |   Approximate Length (Km.) | State                                  |
|----------|----------------------|----------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------------------|
|        1 | National             | Waterway-1           |                     1620   | UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal      |
|        2 | National             | Waterway-2           |                      891   | Assam                                  |
|        3 | National             | Waterway-3           |                      365   | Kerala                                 |
|        4 | National             | Waterway-4           |                     2890   | Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telanagana |
|        5 | National             | Waterway-5           |                      588   | Odisha, West Bengal                    |
|        6 | National             | Waterway-6           |                       71   | Assam                                  |
|        7 | National             | Waterway-7           |                       96   | West Bengal                            |
|        8 | National             | Waterway-8           |                       28   | Kerala                                 |
|        9 | National             | Waterway-9           |                       38   | Kerala                                 |
|       10 | National             | Waterway-10          |                       45   | Maharashtra                            |
|       11 | National             | Waterway-11          |                       98   | Maharashtra                            |
|       12 | National             | Waterway-12          |                        5.5 | UP                                     |
|       13 | National             | Waterway-13          |                       11   | Tamil Nadu                             |
|       14 | National             | Waterway-14          |                       49   | Odisha                                 |
|       15 | National             | Waterway-15          |                      137   | West Bengal                            |
|       16 | National             | Waterway-16          |                      121   | Assam                                  |
|       17 | National             | Waterway-17          |                      191   | HP &Punjab                             |
|       18 | National             | Waterway-18          |                       73   | Assam                                  |
|       19 | National             | Waterway-19          |                       68   | UP                                     |
|       20 | National             | Waterway-20          |                       94   | Tamil Nadu                             |
|       21 | National             | Waterway-21          |                      139   | Telangana Karnataka                    |
|       22 | National             | Waterway-22          |                      156   | Odisha                                 |
|       23 | National             | Waterway-23          |                       56   | Odisha                                 |
|       24 | National             | Waterway-24          |                       60   | UP                                     |
|       25 | National             | Waterway-25          |                       33   | Goa                                    |
|       26 | National             | Waterway-26          |                       53   | J&K &Punjab                            |
|       27 | National             | Waterway-27          |                       17   | Goa                                    |
|       28 | National             | Waterway-28          |                       45   | Maharashtra                            |
|       29 | National             | Waterway-29          |                      135   | West Bengal                            |
|       30 | National             | Waterway-30          |                      114   | Assam                                  |
|       31 | National             | Waterway-31          |                      110   | Assam                                  |
|       32 | National             | Waterway-32          |                       63   | Assam                                  |
|       33 | National             | Waterway-33          |                       61   | Assam                                  |
|       34 | National             | Waterway-34          |                      130   | West Bengal                            |
|       35 | National             | Waterway-35          |                      113   | West Bengal                            |
|       36 | National             | Waterway-36          |                      121   | West Bengal                            |
|       37 | National             | Waterway-37          |                      300   | Bihar &UP                              |

|   38 | National   | Waterway-38   |   62 | Assam &West Bengal         |
|------|------------|---------------|------|----------------------------|
|   39 | National   | Waterway-39   |   49 | Meghalaya                  |
|   40 | National   | Waterway-40   |  340 | Bihar &UP                  |
|   41 | National   | Waterway-41   |  112 | Karnataka                  |
|   42 | National   | Waterway-42   |  518 | UP                         |
|   43 | National   | Waterway-43   |   10 | Karnataka                  |
|   44 | National   | Waterway-44   |   64 | West Bengal                |
|   45 | National   | Waterway-45   |  650 | Haryana, Punjab &Rajasthan |
|   46 | National   | Waterway-46   |   35 | J&K                        |
|   47 | National   | Waterway-47   |  131 | West Bengal                |
|   48 | National   | Waterway-48   |  590 | Rajasthan &Gujarat         |
|   49 | National   | Waterway-49   |  110 | J&K                        |
|   50 | National   | Waterway-50   |   43 | Meghalaya &Assam           |
|   51 | National   | Waterway-51   |   23 | Karnataka                  |
|   52 | National   | Waterway-52   |   54 | Karnataka                  |
|   53 | National   | Waterway-53   |  145 | Maharashtra                |
|   54 | National   | Waterway-54   |   86 | UP &Bihar                  |
|   55 | National   | Waterway-55   |  364 | Tamil Nadu                 |
|   56 | National   | Waterway-56   |   23 | Jharkhand                  |
|   57 | National   | Waterway-57   |   46 | Assam                      |
|   58 | National   | Waterway-58   |  236 | Bihar                      |
|   59 | National   | Waterway-59   |   28 | Kerala                     |
|   60 | National   | Waterway-60   |   77 | West Bengal                |
|   61 | National   | Waterway-61   |   28 | Meghalaya                  |
|   62 | National   | Waterway-62   |  100 | Assam                      |
|   63 | National   | Waterway-63   |  327 | Rajasthan                  |
|   64 | National   | Waterway-64   |  425 | Odisha                     |
|   65 | National   | Waterway-65   |   81 | West Bengal                |
|   66 | National   | Waterway-66   |  248 | Gujarat                    |
|   67 | National   | Waterway-67   |   94 | Karnataka                  |
|   68 | National   | Waterway-68   |   41 | Goa                        |
|   69 | National   | Waterway-69   |    5 | Tamil Nadu                 |
|   70 | National   | Waterway-70   |  242 | Maharashtra, &Telangana    |
|   71 | National   | Waterway-71   |   27 | Goa                        |
|   72 | National   | Waterway-72   |   60 | Maharashtra                |
|   73 | National   | Waterway-73   |  227 | Gujarat                    |
|   74 | National   | Waterway-74   |   78 | Karnataka                  |
|   75 | National   | Waterway-75   |  141 | Tamil Nadu                 |
|   76 | National   | Waterway-76   |   23 | Karnataka                  |
|   77 | National   | Waterway-77   |   20 | Tamil Nadu                 |
|   78 | National   | Waterway-78   |  265 | Maharashtra &Telangana     |
|   79 | National   | Waterway-79   |   29 | Andhra Pradesh             |
|   80 | National   | Waterway-80   |  125 | Tamil Nadu                 |
|   81 | National   | Waterway-81   |   35 | Bihar                      |
|   82 | National   | Waterway-82   |   72 | Assam                      |
|   84 | National   | Waterway-84   |   42 | HP &J&K                    |

|   85 | National Waterway-85              |   31 | Maharashtra                    |
|------|-----------------------------------|------|--------------------------------|
|   86 | National Waterway-86              |   72 | West Bengal                    |
|   87 | National Waterway-87              |  212 | Gujarat                        |
|   88 | National Waterway-88              |   14 | Goa                            |
|   89 | National Waterway-89              |   46 | Maharashtra                    |
|   90 | National Waterway-90              |   29 | Karnataka                      |
|   91 | National Waterway-91              |   52 | Maharashtra                    |
|   92 | National Waterway-92              |   26 | West Bengal                    |
|   93 | National Waterway-93              |   62 | Meghalaya                      |
|   94 | National Waterway-94              |  160 | Bihar                          |
|   95 | National Waterway-95              |  111 | Assam                          |
|   96 | National Waterway-96              |  314 | Jharkhand, West Bengal &Odisha |
|   97 | National Waterway-97 (Sunderbans) |  654 | West Bengal                    |
|   98 | National Waterway-98              |  377 | Punjab&HP                      |
|   99 | National Waterway-99              |   64 | Tamil Nadu                     |
|  100 | National Waterway-100             |  436 | Maharashtra& Gujarat           |
|  101 | National Waterway-101             |   42 | Nagaland                       |
|  102 | National Waterway-102             |   86 | Mizoram                        |
|  103 | National Waterway-103             |   73 | UP                             |
|  104 | National Waterway-104             |  230 | Telangana, Karnataka &AP       |
|  105 | National Waterway-105             |   16 | Karnataka                      |
|  106 | National Waterway-106             |   20 | Meghalaya                      |
|  107 | National Waterway-107             |   45 | Tamil Nadu                     |
|  108 | National Waterway-108             |   53 | UP                             |
|  109 | National Waterway-109             |  164 | Maharashtra &Telangana         |
|  110 | National Waterway-110             | 1089 | Haryana, UP &Delhi             |
|  111 | National Waterway-111             |   50 | Goa                            |

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