{"id":88104,"date":"2019-11-04T18:03:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T12:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11371"},"modified":"2019-11-04T18:03:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T12:33:06","slug":"first-ever-movement-of-container-cargo-on-brahmaputra-national-waterway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/first-ever-movement-of-container-cargo-on-brahmaputra-national-waterway-2\/","title":{"rendered":"First ever movement of container cargo on Brahmaputra (National Waterway -2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The first\never container cargo consignment will sail on National Waterway-2 from Haldia\nDock Complex (HDC) to the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) terminal\nat Pandu in Guwahati on 4 November, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About National\nwaterways in India<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>As per the National Waterways Act, 2016, 111\nhave been declared as National Waterways (NW). These waterways pass through 24\nstates and two union territories, with an approximate total length of 20274 km<\/li><li>The Ganga &#8211; Bhagirathi &#8211; Hooghly river system\nbetween Haldia (Sagar) and Allahabad (1620 km) was declared as National\nWaterway-1 (NW-1) in 1986.<\/li><li><strong>National\nWaterway-2:<\/strong> National Waterway 2 (NW-2) 891km long stretch in Brahmaputra\nRiver extending from Sadiya to the Dhubri near Bangladesh border in Assam.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\nInformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Inland Waterways\nAuthority of India<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) is\nresponsible for development and regulation of inland waterways for shipping and\nnavigation. <\/li><li>The Authority primarily undertakes projects for\ndevelopment and maintenance of IWT infrastructure on national waterways through\ngrant received from Ministry of Shipping.<\/li><li>It was established in 1986 and is headquartered\nin Noida.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Protocol on Inland\nWater Transit and Trade (PIWTT):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In 1972, India and Bangladesh signed the\nProtocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade (PIWTT).<\/li><li>It is an agreement between the two governments\nfor the transportation of goods and keeping their respective waterways\nnavigable, while providing infrastructure facilities.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Indo-Bangladesh\nProtocol (IBP) Route:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It extends from Kolkata (India) on NW-1 to\nSilghat (Assam) on NW-2 (River Brahmaputra) and Karimganj (Assam) on NW-16\n(River Barak).<\/li><li>Further, two stretches of Bangladesh inland\nwaterways viz. Sirajganj\u2013Daikhawa &amp; Ashuganj-Zakiganj on the IBP route are\nbeing developed on cost sharing basis (80% being borne by India &amp; 20% by\nBangladesh). The development of these two stretches is expected to provide\nseamless navigation to and from North East India through waterways via the IBP\nroute.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/factly.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ibp.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11372\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The first ever container cargo consignment will sail on National Waterway-2 from Haldia Dock Complex (HDC) to the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) terminal at Pandu in Guwahati on 4 November, 2019. Facts: About National waterways in India As per the National Waterways Act, 2016, 111 have been declared as National Waterways (NW).&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/first-ever-movement-of-container-cargo-on-brahmaputra-national-waterway-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First ever movement of container cargo on Brahmaputra (National Waterway -2)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[5809,5810],"class_list":["post-88104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-ibp-route","tag-national-waterway-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704926173},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88104","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}