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Government of India
Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
27 DEC 2018 3:37PM by PIB Delhi
Operational National Waterways in the Country

Out of the 111 National Waterways (NWs) declared under the National Waterways Act, 2016, 13 NWs are operational for shipping and navigation and cargo/passenger vessels are moving on them.  The details of operational NWs are as follows:

Details of Operational National Waterways

Sl. No.

National Waterway (NW) No.

Length (km)

Location (S)

1.

NW-1: Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hooghly River System (Haldia - Allahabad)

1620

Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal

2.

NW-2: Brahmaputra River (Dhubri - Sadiya)

891

Assam

 

3.

NW-3: West Coast Canal (Kottapuram - Kollam), Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals

205

 

 

Kerala

4.

NW-4: Phase-1development of the stretch Muktiyala to Vijyawada of river Krishna

82

Andhra Pradesh

 

5.

6.

7.

 

8.

Waterways in Maharashtra

i)  NW-10 (Amba River)

ii)  NW-83 (Rajpuri Creek)

iii) NW-85 (Revadanda Creek -  Kundalika River System)

iv) NW-91 (Shastri river–Jaigad creek system)

 

 

45

31

31

 

52

Maharashtra

 

 

9.

 

10.

 

National Waterways in Goa

NW-68 – Mandovi – Usgaon Bridge to Arabian Sea (41 km)

NW-111 – Zuari– Sanvordem Bridge to Marmugao Port (50 km).

41

 

50

 

 

 

 

Goa

 

11.

12.

National Waterways in Gujarat

NW-73-   Narmada river-

NW-100- Tapi river

 

226

436

 

Gujarat &Maharastra

13.

Sunderbans Waterways (NW-97): Namkhana to AtharaBankiKhal  in West Bengal.

172

West Bengal

(through Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route)

 

Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) has put in place a structured management and monitoring system with competent and experienced professionals, to ensure that the projects on NWs are qualitatively executed in a time bound manner.  In addition, the progress of execution of projects is regularly reviewed at various levels within IWAI and the Government.

 

Inland Water Transport (IWT) mode is widely recognized as environment friendly and cost effective mode of transport.  As per RITES Report of 2014 on Integrated National Waterways Transportation Grid, some of the important benefits of  IWT mode compared to rail and road transportation are fuel efficiency and cost savings as given below:

 

  1. 1 Litre of fuel moves 24 tonne - km on road, 95 tonne-km on rail and 215 tonne-km on IWT.
  2. Comparative cost for movement of freight.

Mode

Railways

Highways

IWT

Freight (Rs./T.km)

1.36

2.50

1.06

In addition to the economic and environmental benefits, IWT aims to create for the shippers and logistic players, an alternative to the two dominant modes of transport viz. road and rail.  

 

Minister of State for Shipping Shri Pon Radhakrishnan gave this information in reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

 

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