{"id":89421,"date":"2020-02-13T14:54:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T09:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13740"},"modified":"2020-02-13T14:54:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T09:24:34","slug":"centre-clears-major-ports-authority-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-clears-major-ports-authority-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre clears Major Ports Authority Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The Union Cabinet has approved the Major Ports Authority Bill 2020. At present, major ports are regulated by the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aim:<\/strong> to provide for regulation, operation and planning of Major Ports in India<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>vests the administration, control and management of such ports upon the Boards of Major Port Authorities<\/li><li>empowers the Board of Port Authority to raise loans and issue securities for the purposes of the capital expenditure and working capital requirements of such port authority.<\/li><li>seeks to constitute an Adjudicatory Board for adjudication of disputes among major ports, Public Private Partnership concessionaries and captive users<\/li><li>provides for the provision for Corporate Social Responsibility measures within the port limits.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India has 12 major ports\u2014 Deendayal (erstwhile Kandla), Mumbai, JNPT, Marmugao, New Mangalore, Cochin, Chennai, Kamarajar (earlier Ennore), V O Chidambarnar, Visakhapatnam, Paradip and Kolkata (including Haldia).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/2o5DdXGMs5uwdHhZ51cvdkTC1YcHNTFUbnx6p9VwxKEhSJzyy0UfQSjHPcBv0IZ9RCZwcB3Pm15IDWp6dqr8tmZ3QsSBWKjSOz1ZiZ7UtvGCufIq5sAvw7c_90XEfm2mL3vJMXKX\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Union Cabinet has approved the Major Ports Authority Bill 2020. At present, major ports are regulated by the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 Facts: Aim: to provide for regulation, operation and planning of Major Ports in India Features: vests the administration, control and management of such ports upon the Boards of Major Port&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-clears-major-ports-authority-bill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centre clears Major Ports Authority Bill<\/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":[1760],"tags":[6869],"class_list":["post-89421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-major-ports-authority-bill","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89421","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=89421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}