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Varanasi to Haldia is partially operational cargo ships are already moving after dredging is complete big ships will move
River Ganga is Huge in Bihar , Jharkhand and Bengal it can easily accommodate big ships government has planned to develop NW1 as an economic corridor
I checked google earth on this and found the problem to be in the Bengal area. The river gets very narrow on that stretch specially the Farakka to Haldia stretch.
 

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I checked google earth on this and found the problem to be in the Bengal area. The river gets very narrow on that stretch specially the Farakka to Haldia stretch.
No matter how narrow it gets Ganga is always wider than Suez or Panama Canal
The Width of river Ganga ranges from 1.6 to 8km
the Suez canal consisted of a channel barely 8 metres (26 feet) deep, 22 metres (72 feet) wide at the bottom, and 61 to 91 metres (200 to 300 feet) wide at the surface.
River Ganga is narrow in Uttarakhand and Some parts of Uttar Pradesh but After Kanpur it starts getting Big entering Bihar more rivers join Ganga like Koshi , Gandak etc and it becomes gigantic it expands further in west Bengal and Bangladesh
 
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Maiden consignment of products thru inland waterway left for India
 

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Cochin Shipyard’s shipbuilding facility in West Bengal to be operation by June
 

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India is a country where the logistic cost is high. It is above 10% of the material cost. Gadkari says that it can be reduced by 4% to 5%. This is very exciting. I saw one of his interview in which he says that his department consumes 40% of Cement and steel produced in India. The quotations for new projects are are coming 30 to 32% lower than the estimated cost. One tunnel which connects Kashmir is in progress. Initial tenders were 11000 crore which cancelled. New tenders has 5000 crore value. Toll tax collection increased by 10000 crore to 34000 crore compared to last year. Toll tax collection is going to witness a big rise in coming years. He said that his department build a RCC road of 2.5 KM in a single day which is a world record. His department build a Tar road of 24 KM in a single day which is also a world rerecord. He said that India's highways will be comparable to best anywhere.

Good things are happening. This need to continue uninterrupted for a year.
 

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India is a country where the logistic cost is high. It is above 10% of the material cost. Gadkari says that it can be reduced by 4% to 5%. This is very exciting. I saw one of his interview in which he says that his department consumes 40% of Cement and steel produced in India. The quotations for new projects are are coming 30 to 32% lower than the estimated cost. One tunnel which connects Kashmir is in progress. Initial tenders were 11000 crore which cancelled. New tenders has 5000 crore value. Toll tax collection increased by 10000 crore to 34000 crore compared to last year. Toll tax collection is going to witness a big rise in coming years. He said that his department build a RCC road of 2.5 KM in a single day which is a world record. His department build a Tar road of 24 KM in a single day which is also a world rerecord. He said that India's highways will be comparable to best anywhere.

Good things are happening. This need to continue uninterrupted for a year.
Nothing can beat inland waterways in cost effectiveness USA and China transport 45-50% of their freight through inland waterways Vietnam(45-50%) and Bangladesh(30-35%) too
China has created an entire economic belt along Yangtze River which generates 40% of their GDP we could have done the same along river Ganga in Eastern UP , Bihar , Jharkhand and Bengal as well as in Brahmaputra river in Northeastern states
In India we ignored our waterways because building roads gives you more votes as people often see it and Use it that’s why we failed to become like China there are many other reasons too
 

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Nothing can beat inland waterways in cost effectiveness USA and China transport 45-50% of their freight through inland waterways Vietnam(45-50%) and Bangladesh(30-35%) too
China has created an entire economic belt along Yangtze River which generates 40% of their GDP we could have done the same along river Ganga in Eastern UP , Bihar , Jharkhand and Bengal as well as in Brahmaputra river in Northeastern states
In India we ignored our waterways because building roads gives you more votes as people often see it and Use it that’s why we failed to become like China there are many other reasons too
Roads are the first step and cheaper and quite wide uses .


Waterways are the requirements but require investment also , industry need to be setup close to it , it is happening , should have happened earlier but roads are necessary for other pupose too
 

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Roads are the first step and cheaper and quite wide uses .


Waterways are the requirements but require investment also , industry need to be setup close to it , it is happening , should have happened earlier but roads are necessary for other pupose too
We have a place called alappey in kerala
The waterways are very developed and sophisticated, there are no delays(atleast in my experience)
Certain places there are more reliant on waterways than roads
 

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We have a place called alappey in kerala
The waterways are very developed and sophisticated, there are no delays(atleast in my experience)
Certain places there are more reliant on waterways than roads
In China their industrial clusters and cities are built along inland waterways so that the cost of transportation is low
Use of Inland waterways for transportation also decreases road traffic accidents and air pollution which is a big problem in India
 

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In China their industrial clusters and cities are built along inland waterways so that the cost of transportation is low
Use Inland waterways also decreases road traffic accidents and air pollution which is a big problem in India
We used to do that during ancient times
That too better than most of the civilised world
But transition to that level would be a headache
In alappey I was talking about public transport, which is utilizing waterways, and logistics and stuff to some extent, then there is tourism and fishing industry along the same channel

Pretty cool place actually, that pollution bit might actually be true in the case of alappey because the environment there is quite clean and due to that it attracts a lot of foreign tourists
 

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We used to do that during ancient times
That too better than most of the civilised world
But transition to that level would be a headache
In alappey I was talking about public transport, which is utilizing waterways, and logistics and stuff to some extent, then there is tourism and fishing industry along the same channel

Pretty cool place actually, that pollution bit might actually be true in the case of alappey because the environment there is quite clean and due to that it attracts a lot of foreign tourists
We spend 14% of our GDP on logistics thanks to poor inland waterway connectivity we transport only 2-3% of our freight using inland waterways
our cities have developed around highways because our inland waterways were neglected and were not navigable that’s why we failed miserably
On the other hand Chinese transport 47% of their freight using inland waterways and USA 45% , European Union 44% , Vietnam 45% even Bangladesh transports 35% of their freight using inland waterways
Chinese , Americans , Vietnamese , European built their cities and industrial clusters along inland waterways we built along highways that’s why today our logistic costs are so high and we export less than a small country like Vietnam let alone China
 

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Joe Biden has planned to invest 17 billion dollars in already sophisticated inland waterways of USA in his 2.3 trillion dollars infrastructure development plan I hope our government learns something
 

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Joe Biden has planned to invest 17 billion dollars in already sophisticated inland waterways of USA in his 2.3 trillion dollars infrastructure development plan I hope our government learns something
What exactly you want GoI to learn?
 

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Developing inland waterways is a great step by current gov. I hope they manage to solve problem of taming the raging rivers during monsoon season in India. Inland waterways along with DFC and highway projects will definitely help, poor hindi heartland to get atleast a few manufacturing companies.
 

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What exactly you want GoI to learn?
Inland waterways should be prioritized and new cities and industrial clusters should develop alongside national waterways (once they’re complete)
like it happened along Yangtze River in China
 

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Inland waterways should be prioritized and new cities and industrial clusters should develop alongside national waterways (once they’re complete)
like it happened along Yangtze River in China
On one hand you are posting govt policy and implementation news on development of Inland waterways and on the other hand you are saying “GoI should learn”.

How can both contradictory points put forth by you yourself , be valid at the same time?
 

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On one hand you are posting govt policy and implementation news on development of Inland waterways and on the other hand you are saying “GoI should learn”.

How can both contradictory points put forth by you yourself , be valid at the same time?
Government is working but the speed is slow even the most important and the biggest national waterway 1 also not fully operational and there are 111 declared National Waterways
 

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