Lok Sabha Question No. 4070 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-08-13
Subject: Growth of Shipping Sector
Ministry: SHIPPING
Asked by: JAYSHREEBEN  PATEL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SHIPPING

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.4070 TO BE ANSWERED ON 13 TH  AUGUST, 2015

## GROWTH OF SHIPPING SECTOR

## 4070.    SHRIMATI  JAYSHREEBEN PATEL:

Will the Minister of SHIPPING be please to state:-

## पोत प�रवहन मंत्

- (a)         the details of growth registered by the shipping sector during each of the last three years and the current year;
- (b)             whether the Government has introduced biometric I-cards for port functionaries and if so, the details thereof along with the agencies authorised to make these I-Cards;
- (c)              the number of workers from the local regions recruited under class-III and IV categories during the last three years and the current year; and
- (d)             the details of health schemes made available to such workers?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF SHIPPING

## (SHRI  PON. RADHAKRISHNAN)

- (a)               The following indicators represent growth registered by the Shipping Sector during the last three years current year:

| Year    |   Capacity of Major Ports (Million Tonnes) |   Traffic of Major Ports (Million Tonnes) | Gross Tonnage (GT)   |
|---------|--------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|----------------------|
| 2011-12 |                                     696.53 |                                    560.14 | 110,30,751           |
| 2012-13 |                                     744.91 |                                    545.79 | 102,23,988           |
| 2013-14 |                                     800.52 |                                    555.49 | 104,97,540           |
| 2014-15 |                                     871.52 |                                    581.33 | 105,06,388           |

## (b)             The details of biometric I-Card being used in Major Port Trust are as under:

|   Sl No. | Port                         | Agency involved in making Biometric I-Card                    |
|----------|------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Kolkata Port Trust           | M/s Schneider Electric Pvt. Ltd.                              |
|        2 | New Mangalore Port Trust     | Starlinks Communications Pvt. Ltd.                            |
|        3 | Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust  | M/s Kronos Systems India Pvt. Ltd.                            |
|        4 | Mormugao Port Trust          | Micromax Informatics Ltd. Precision Biometric India Pvt. Ltd. |
|        5 | Vishakhapatnam Port Trust    | By Port itself                                                |
|        6 | Cochin Port Trust            | Under Implementation                                          |
|        7 | Kandla Port Trust            | Kelton Tech Solutions Ltd.                                    |
|        8 | Chennai Port Trust           | Aadhaar Based System                                          |
|        9 | Paradip Port Trust           | Formula One Solutions Pvt. Ltd.                               |
|       10 | Mumbai Port Trust            | By Port itself                                                |
|       11 | V O Chidambaranar Port Trust | By Port itself                                                |

- (c)        176 number of workers from the local regions were recruited under Class-III & IV categories during the last three years and the current year in 11 Major Port Trusts.
- (d)        Major  Ports  are  providing  health  care  to  their  employees  (outpatient/inpatient)  through Port  Hospitals  and  wherever  specialised  treatment  is  required  through  empanelled hospitals.

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