Waterways

There’s probably no other country in the world with as many rivers, canals and lakes as India, and yet inland water transport is nearly non existent here. Only 8.9% of the rivers in India are essentially used for navigational purposes. Given the fact that the cost of developing an inland water network is less that 10% of constructing a similar multilane road link and coupled with that fact that India has more than 14,500 km navigable waterways, it is incredulous that all that we have done is to have some paperwork on its potential. An Asian Development Bank Technical Assistance Report had further stated on waterways, “It is also more fuel efficient since it is estimated that one liter of water can move 24 tonkm of freight by road, 85 ton-km by rail and 105 ton-km by inland water transport.”

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