The Minister said the environment-friendly and cost-effective mode of transportation will reduce the logistics costs significantly from as ...

The minister said that consultants have already been appointed and detailed project reports (DPR) will be formulated once necessary approva...

India plans to offer 850 ports along key rivers for development by the private sectors as the government looks to scale up inland waterways...

Also, it observed that attention should be given to develop existing waterways too as two of the stretches have been neglected.

Promoting waterways is the priority of the Ministry as it will ease the burden from road and rail network besides being cost-effective, he ...

Gadkari said the govt aims to reduce traffic burden on roads and promote water transportation where the cost is barely 50 paise/ km.

Major projects are underway for all existing five Waterways and within six months it will "revolutionise" water transport in the country, G...

Detailed business development studies are being carried out under the Jal Marg Vikas Project for identifying all business opportunities.

Gadkari said a slew of steps are underway to promote the sector and country is yet to tap the potential of waterways despite being more cos...

For 55 rivers, consultants have been appointed and detailed project reports (DPR) are being formulated, he added.

Keen on promoting water transport to propel economic growth, the government has set an ambitious target to convert 101 rivers into waterway...

Also a project to develop National Waterways -4, Sholinganallur-Kallapakkam stretch of South Buckingham Canal has been sanctioned.

Radhakrishnan said for NW-4, a project for development of Sholinganallur-Kallapakkam stretch of South Buckingham Canal has been sanctioned.

Tata Steel India spent Rs 2,261 crore in freight costs in the year ended March 2013, up 33 per cent from the year earlier.

The waterway will link Kalinganagar, site of Tata Steel’s upcoming 3 mt steel plant, to the two port, significantly reducing dependence on ...

"The Committee does not agree with the idea of handing over only the profitable stretches of National Waterways (NW) 4 & 5 to private partn...

Govt's move to introduce a Bill in the Parliament for declaring Lakhipur-Bhanga stretch of the Barak River as a National Waterway is a much...