{"id":319943,"date":"2024-12-16T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=319943"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:41:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T06:11:58","slug":"jalvahak-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jalvahak-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalvahak Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The Union government has launched the Jalvahak scheme to promote long-haul cargo transportation via inland waterways.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Jalvahak Scheme<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_319953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319953\" style=\"width: 326px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-319953 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Jalvahak-scheme.png?resize=326%2C179&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jalvahak Scheme\" width=\"326\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Jalvahak-scheme.png?w=326&amp;ssl=1 326w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Jalvahak-scheme.png?resize=300%2C165&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-319953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- Times of India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a cargo promotion scheme designed to <em>incentivize the movement of long-haul cargo<\/em> through India\u2019s national waterways.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry<\/strong>&#8211; Ministry of Ports, Shipping &amp; Waterways (MoPSW)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Implementing Agency<\/strong>&#8211; It is\u00a0jointly implemented by the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) and Inland &amp; Coastal Shipping Ltd (ICSL), a subsidiary of the Shipping Corporation of India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim<\/strong>&#8211; To harness the trade potential of inland waterways while <em>reducing logistics costs<\/em> and <em>decongesting road and rail networks<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Waterways Covered<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>NW1: River Ganga.<\/li>\n<li>NW2: River Brahmaputra.<\/li>\n<li>NW16: River Barak.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Incentive<\/strong>: The scheme offers cargo owners <em>up to 35% reimbursement on operating costs<\/em> for transporting goods over distances of more than 300 km via waterways.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scheduled Service<\/strong>: Fixed-day Scheduled sailings between key locations like Kolkata, Patna, Varanasi, and Pandu (Assam).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Validity<\/strong>: Initially valid for <em>three years<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Model Shift<\/strong>&#8211; Schemes aim at Incentivising Modal Shift of<em> 800 Million Tonnes KMs<\/em> with an investment of \u20b995.4 crores by 2027.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Union government has launched the Jalvahak scheme to promote long-haul cargo transportation via inland waterways. About Jalvahak Scheme It is a cargo promotion scheme designed to incentivize the movement of long-haul cargo through India\u2019s national waterways. Nodal Ministry&#8211; Ministry of Ports, Shipping &amp; Waterways (MoPSW) Implementing Agency&#8211; It is\u00a0jointly implemented by the Inland&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jalvahak-scheme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jalvahak Scheme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":319953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-319943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Jalvahak-scheme.png?fit=326%2C179&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319943","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\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}