The quantity of cargo moved through inland waterways within India in organized sector on National Waterways – 1, 2 and 3 and inland waterways of Goa and Mumbai during the last three years and current year is indicated below:
Year - Cargo moved (in million tonnes)
2010 – 11 - 72.8
2011 – 12 - 68.8
2012 – 13 - 22.0
2013 – 14 - 5.4* (up to June, 2013)
*provisional
Government along with Indian Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) has chalked out projects with the specific objective of transportation of cargo by Inland Water Transport (IWT) mode. One such project for transportation of 3 million tonnes of coal every year for 7 years from Haldia (Sandheads) to NTPC’s Power Plant atFarakka through National Waterway – 1 is already under implementation by a private sector company. Government has identified some more such projects which, inter-alia, include transportation of coal for NTPC’s Power Plant at Barh (near Patna), transportation of coal for NTPC Power Plant at Bongaigaon (near Jogighopaon National Waterway – 2), transportation of fertilizers on National Waterway – 1; and transportation of food grains from Kolkata to Tripura through Indo – Bangladesh Protocol Routes.
No specific proposal with regard to Kerala has been formulated. However, on the request of Government of Kerala, IWAI has undertaken a review techno-economic feasibility study for extension of National Waterway – 3 from Kollam to Kovalam in the South and Kottapuram to Kasaragode in the North through the consultant M/s NATPAC.
This information was given by Minister of Shipping Shri G.K. Vasan in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today (August 5 , 2013)
Courtesy : (pib.nic.in) Press Information Bureau
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