{"id":215557,"date":"2022-11-23T19:11:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=215557"},"modified":"2022-11-23T19:11:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:41:30","slug":"smooth-flow-on-inland-waterways-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/smooth-flow-on-inland-waterways-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Smooth flow \u2013 On Inland Waterways in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cSmooth flow\u201d <\/strong>published in Business Standard<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a023rd<\/sup> November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 3 – Infrastructure<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>inland waterways in India<\/strong><\/h5>\n

News:<\/strong> The government of Uttar Pradesh has recently decided to use inland waterways to move export-bound cargo to international seaports.<\/p>\n

It will integrate the Varanasi-Haldia inland waterway with the existing roads and highways network and help in developing a multimodal transport system in the country.<\/p>\n

What is the present situation of inland waterways in India?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

India has a huge inland waterways network which can be used for the movement of goods and passengers.<\/p>\n

The National Waterways Act, 2016<\/strong> has identified around 111 navigable water courses and declared them \u201cnational inland waterways\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, only 25 of them have been developed into operable water channels<\/strong> and out of these only 13 are being used.<\/p>\n

Inland waterways in India are mostly unutilised<\/strong> for commercial purposes despite the growing need in the economy.<\/p>\n

India lags behind the US, China and the European Union,<\/strong> where more than 20 percent of merchandise transportation is done through waterways.<\/p>\n

However, India passed the Inland Vessels Act<\/strong> last year which is expected to leverage inland waterways in India.<\/p>\n

What are the benefits of inland waterways?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Inland water transportation is a cheaper, convenient and environment friendly<\/strong> mode of transporting cargo goods.<\/p>\n

A World Bank study<\/strong> has found that water transportation is about 30 per cent cheaper than railways and 60 percent less expensive than roadways.<\/p>\n

Carbon emission is also less compared to other road transports. However, there are also few concerns associated with it.<\/p>\n

What are the concerns?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

a)<\/strong> Water courses need to be regularly cleaned to clear silt deposits, weeds and other obstructions, b)<\/strong> the loading and unloading points need to be augmented including terminal facilities for ships, and c)<\/strong> adequate water flows would need to be maintained in these streams at all times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cSmooth flow\u201d published in Business Standard\u00a0on\u00a023rd November 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 – Infrastructure Relevance: inland waterways in India News: The government of Uttar Pradesh has recently decided to use inland waterways to move export-bound cargo to international seaports. It will integrate the Varanasi-Haldia inland waterway with the existing… Continue reading Smooth flow \u2013 On Inland Waterways in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,216],"class_list":["post-215557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}