Unlocking Inland Waterways Potential In Modi’s Regime February 13, 2015 by Deepak Parvatiyar (Published in mapsofindia.com) The Union Government plans to introduce the Inland Waterways Bill to convert 110 Indian rivers into Inland Waterways under the Pradhanmantri Jal Marg Yojna, during the forthcoming Parliament session. Despite huge potential of inland waterways, they had remained a perennially ignored part of the country’s infrastructure largely because water remains a state subject in India and right over usage of water and ownership of adjacent land remain with state government. Since Independence, only five water bodies have been declared as National Waterways as the process is cumbersome and to declare a NW, the government needs approval from Parliament unlike the case of highways (where it just requires a notification in the official gazette). All identified water bodies to be declared as National Waterways The shipping ministry has prep
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