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Inland Waters
Inland water transport refers to the transportation of people, goods, and materials
via waterways such as rivers, canals, lakes, and other navigable bodies of water
that are located within a country's boundaries.
• India has over 5,000 km of navigable inland waterways under development.

• Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) was established in 1986.

• From only five waterways recognised as National Waterways (NWs), the


government of India notified 106 additional waterways as National
Waterways, by the National Waterways Act, 2016.

• There are 111 officially notified Inland National Waterways (NWs) in India
identified for the purposes of inland water transport.
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National Length
Route River(s)
Waterway (km)
NW1 1,620 Prayagraj-Haldia Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hooghly

Buckingham canal, Godavari,


NW4 1,078 Kakinada-Puducherry
Krishna

NW2 891 Sadiya-Dhubri Brahmaputra

Brahmani, Mahanadi, Matai,


NW5 588 Talcher-Dhamra-Paradip
East Coast Canal

West Coast Canal, Champakara


NW3 205 Kollam-Kottapuram
Canal, Udyogmandal Canal

NW16 121 Pandu-Silghat Barak

The Inland Waterways Authority of India Act, 1985


The Act establishes an Authority for the management and development of inland waterways
for the purposes of shipping and navigation, as well as things relating to it. The Inland
Waterways Authority of India was established in 1986.
Headquarter : Noida
The Authority also has its regional offices at Patna, Kolkata, Guwahati and Kochi and sub-
offices at Allahabad, Varanasi, Farakka, Sahibganj, Haldia, Swroopganj, Hemnagar, Dibrugarh,
Dhubri, Silchar, Kollam, Bhubaneshwar and Vijayawada.

Sagarmala
▪ The Sagarmala Programme is an initiative by the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and
Waterways to utilise India’s 7,500 km of coastline and advantageous location in the
Indian Ocean Region.
▪ The Sagarmala project was initially launched in 2003, but it was revived in 2014 by the
Modi government.
▪ The project has four pillars:
port modernisation,
port connectivity,
port-led industrialisation,
and coastal community development.
▪ The project has identified 14 Coastal Economic Zones (CEZs) and 30 link projects for
water resources development through inter-basin transfer of water.
▪ The project also includes the Sagarmala Seaplane Services, which will facilitate faster
and hassle-free travel across the country by using seaplanes on various routes.

The Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP) for capacity augmentation of navigation on National
Waterway-1 (NW-1) is being implemented by Inland Waterways Authority of India under the
Ministry of Shipping, Government of India. the support of World Bank.

Initially announced in the Budget Speech of July 2014 by the Finance Minister of India

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