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Transporting cargo

Status, as in 2016

Dipak Dash, August 16, 2020: The Times of India

Only 18 national waterways are feasible for cargo movement and 25 others are feasible for ferry and cruise for tourism purpose out of the 106 national waterways notified in 2016, a study by the Inland Waterway Authority of India (IWAI) has found.

Before 2016, only five NWs were notified and cargo movement is operational to some extent on these waterways. These include Ganga-Bhagirathi and Brahmaputra rivers. The government had enacted the Inland Waterway Act in 2016 to give national waterway (NW) status to another 106 rivers and canals in one go taking the total number to 111. Sources said this was done after the ministry was struggling for more than nine years to get a bill passed to declare Barak river in Assam as a new NW.

Earlier, the shipping ministry required a new law for declaration of any NW and no work, including feasibility study, could be carried out. Sources said developmental activities have been initiated in the case of 13 NWs and work is yet to start in the remaining four for cargo vessel movement. A master plan is also being prepared for feasible NWs in both freight and ferry categories, they added.

Based on the feasibility studies and detailed project reports of the additional 106 NWs, the IWAI has found that rivers such as Barak and Kopli in Assam, Mandovi, Zuari and Kumerjua in Goa, Narmada and Tapi in Gujarat can be used for cargo movement.