Live
- TTD closes Akasaganga, Papavinasam roads
- High costs, limited results: Drone mist-spraying pilot project faces setback
- Poster war on as parties compete for voter attention
- Many dams, tanks filled as rains batter Tirupati dist
- Mayawati, Akhilesh condemn damage to Constitution replica
- Mann slams Centre over ‘one nation, one election’
- Techie suicide case: Mother-in-law flees Jaunpur home
- State government to Supreme Court: New guidelines on how to apply anti-gangster law in UP
- CM Chandrababu to unveil Vision 2047 document today in Vijayawada, traffic restrictions imposed
- State-level LIMES-2k24 inaugurated
Centre keen on promoting waterways, says Gadkari
The Centre is keen on promoting water transport to propel economic growth, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said. The Union Minister, who was at VM Banjara village in Penuballi mandal on Wednesday to launch the road works, said that the Centre will spend Rs 5 lakh crore in the next 10 years on developing waterways in the country
Khammam: The Centre is keen on promoting water transport to propel economic growth, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said. The Union Minister, who was at VM Banjara village in Penuballi mandal on Wednesday to launch the road works, said that the Centre will spend Rs 5 lakh crore in the next 10 years on developing waterways in the country.“A plan is on the anvil to convert 101 rivers across the nation into waterways,” Gadkari said, asserting that waterways would effectively bring down the transportation costs.
- To spend Rs 5 lakh crore in the next 10 years
- Union Minister lays foundation stone for construction of second bridge over River Godavari at Bhadrachalam
Stating that the waterway transportation cost is barely 50 paise a km in comparison to Rs 1 by Railways and Rs 1.5 by roadways, he said a slew of steps were underway to tap the potential of waterways in the country. Referring to the 1,620 km-long waterway between Varanasi and Haldia, he said that it would come into operation in a couple of years. Likewise, the Centre has plans to develop waterways in Mahanadi, Brahmaputra, Buckingham Canal and Godavari rivers, he added.
The Suryapet-Devarapalli State Highway will be converted into a National Highway, Gadkari said, while accepting the upgradation of the Sattupalli-Kothagudem National Highway into a four-lane road. Responding to the local public representatives, he said the Centre would verify the viability for setting up of dry port in Khammam district.
Earlier, the Union Minister laid foundation stone for upgradation of NH-221 (New NH-30) between Rudrampur and Bhadrachalam (from kilometre 121/0 to 165/0), AP-TS border to Rudrampur (kilometre 71/200 to 121/000). Together the estimated cost of the work is Rs 539 crore.
Later, he formally laid the foundation stone for the construction of second high-level bridge across Godavari at Bhadrachalam with an outlay of Rs 98.45 crore. Gadkari offered special prayers at the Sri Sitaramachandra Swamy temple in Bhadrachalam before he left for Mahabubnagar on a chopper.
Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya, Roads and Buildings Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao, Parliamentary secretary Jalagam Venkata Rao, MPs A Sitarama Naik and Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy, BJP State president Kishan Reddy, legislators Thati Venkateswarlu, Sunnam Rajaiah and Payam Venkateswarlu and Joint Collector D Divya were present.
