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Silchar, Dec. 22: The Centre has granted Rs 80 crore for facilitating round-the-year navigation on the 129-km-long Barak waterway. The Barak is the second largest river in the Northeast and has already been declared National Waterway 6.
The chairman-cum-managing director of the Central Inland Water Transport Corporation, Praful Tayel, said here last evening that a bill declaring the Barak as a national waterway had already been passed in both Houses of Parliament.
A government notification in this regard, however, is yet to be issued.
Tayel said a portion of Rs 80 crore will be used for construction of jetties, warehouses and other infrastructure at Silchar and Lakhipur riverfronts of the Barak.
The Badarpur terminal, about 25km to the west from here, will be inaugurated on Wednesday by shipping secretary A.P. V.N. Sarma.
The terminal cost the central exchequer Rs 3.64 crore and included construction of a state-of-the-art jetty and a few warehouses at Badarpur, a railway township in Karimganj district.
This waterways, when modernised and developed over the next four years, will open a new horizon in the transportation of essential goods in the Barak waters.
The Barak, which has its source in the Saramati Hills on the Manipur-Nagaland border, flows through Manipur and the South Assam districts of Cachar and Karimganj and then bifurcates into the Surma and Kushiara rivers to flow through adjacent Bangladesh. At present, the ideal conditions for navigability on the Barak prevailed only for five months from May, Tayel added.
The chairman-cum-managing director of the Central Inland Water Transport Corporation said the vessels and cargo ships of the inland waterways corporation could carry 5,000 tonnes of cargo a year, which mostly includes tea, cement, food items and fertilisers, from either the Calcutta or the Haldia ports to the Karimganj port which was recently developed at an expense of Rs 8 crore.
Tayel, however, exuded hope that once this national waterway on the Barak (from Lakhipur to Karimganj) was developed, the volume of cargo to and from South Assam would spiral to 40,000 tonnes. River traffic to South Assam areas through in erstwhile East Bengal was first flagged off in 1829.
Silchar, Dec. 22: The Centre has granted Rs 80 crore for facilitating round-the-year navigation on the 129-km-long Barak waterway. The Barak is the second largest river in the Northeast and has already been declared National Waterway 6.
The chairman-cum-managing director of the Central Inland Water Transport Corporation, Praful Tayel, said here last evening that a bill declaring the Barak as a national waterway had already been passed in both Houses of Parliament.
A government notification in this regard, however, is yet to be issued.
Tayel said a portion of Rs 80 crore will be used for construction of jetties, warehouses and other infrastructure at Silchar and Lakhipur riverfronts of the Barak.
The Badarpur terminal, about 25km to the west from here, will be inaugurated on Wednesday by shipping secretary A.P. V.N. Sarma.
The terminal cost the central exchequer Rs 3.64 crore and included construction of a state-of-the-art jetty and a few warehouses at Badarpur, a railway township in Karimganj district.
This waterways, when modernised and developed over the next four years, will open a new horizon in the transportation of essential goods in the Barak waters.
The Barak, which has its source in the Saramati Hills on the Manipur-Nagaland border, flows through Manipur and the South Assam districts of Cachar and Karimganj and then bifurcates into the Surma and Kushiara rivers to flow through adjacent Bangladesh. At present, the ideal conditions for navigability on the Barak prevailed only for five months from May, Tayel added.
The chairman-cum-managing director of the Central Inland Water Transport Corporation said the vessels and cargo ships of the inland waterways corporation could carry 5,000 tonnes of cargo a year, which mostly includes tea, cement, food items and fertilisers, from either the Calcutta or the Haldia ports to the Karimganj port which was recently developed at an expense of Rs 8 crore.
Tayel, however, exuded hope that once this national waterway on the Barak (from Lakhipur to Karimganj) was developed, the volume of cargo to and from South Assam would spiral to 40,000 tonnes. River traffic to South Assam areas through in erstwhile East Bengal was first flagged off in 1829.
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