gfiles magazine

October 17, 2017

Why the boats don’t sail?

THE National Waterways Act, passed in both Houses of Parliament in March 2016, increased the number of national waterways across the country from the earlier 6 to 111, with plans of connecting the country with Myanmar via Bangladesh through waterways. In an interview to PTI in May 2017, the Union Transport and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari said, “The Cabinet has approved Rs. 2,000 crore from CFR and we can easily get works done worth Rs. 12,000 crore from that by raising more funds. It is my endeavour to operationalise 10 waterways before December 2018.


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