GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SHIPPING STARRED QUESTION NO.-232 TO BE ANSWERD ON 27TH DECEMBER,2O18

DEVELOPMENT OF FACILITIES AT PORTS

-232. SHRI : SHRIMATI REKHA VERMA,

Will the Minister of SHIPPING be pleased to state: +d qfud-f,d dff

(a) the funds allocated, released and utilized for development of port facilities in the main ports of during the current year. (b) whether the Government is aware of delay in implementation of some projects in various ports of Uttar Pradesh; (c) if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor along with the reaction of the Government thereto; and (d) the steps taken/proposed to be taken by the Government for cornpleting the projects at the said ports at the earliest?

ANSWER MINISTER OF SHIPPING (SHRI )

(a) to (d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House. -2-

Statement referred to in replv to parts (a) to (d) of Lok Sabha Starred Question No.*232 for 27.12.2018 raised bv Shri Lallu Sinqh & Shrimati Rekha Verma. Hon'ble M.P. on "Development of Facilities at Ports" ln the major ports, projects relating to capacity expansion, modernlzation of infrastructure, rail and road connectivity at the port are undertaken by these ports from their own funds or by raising loan and in certain cases through Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. However, because of the peculiar nature of Kolkata Port which requires substantial amount of maintenance dredging, Government of lndia has been supporting Kolkata Port by providing dredging subsidy through budgetary support. ln addition, four Ports namely, V.O. Chidambaranar, Cochin, Mormugao and Chennai are being provided budgetary support for various projects. The details of fund released to the five major ports in the above mentioned projects in the last three years are given below:

Rs. in Crore) st. Name of the Project i 201 5-16 2016-17 2017-18 No. Port 1 Kolkata Dredging Subsidy 275.55 i62 50 167.39 I

2 v.o Capital Dredging and 27.00 15 00 15.00 Chidambaranar Development of Outer Harbour 3 Cochrn Road Connectivity to 400 13 31 i ICTT at Vallarpadam and ; Construction of Subway over 4 Mormugao Construction of Four lane 5.00 10.00 Port connectivitv Road 5 Chennai Coastal Road Protection 10.00 500 14.74 Work

ln addition to the above, funds released to the ports under Sagarmala programme during 2015- 16 to 2017-18 are at Annex.

Uttar Pradesh is a land-locked State. There are no sea ports in Uttar Pradesh. However, multimodal terminals and inter modal terminals, which are in the nature of a river ports, are being constructed under the Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP). The JMVP is being implemented at cost of Rs. 5369 crore by the lnland Waterways Authority of lndia (lWAl) for augmentation of navigation capacity of National Waterway-1 on the Haldia-Varanasi stretch of river Ganga. The locations of the multi modal terminals is Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), Sahibganj (Jharkhand) and Haldia (West Bengal) and intermodal terminals at Ghazipur (Uttar Pradesh) and Kalughat (Bihar). Work on the multimodal terminal at Varanasi has been completed as per schedule and the terminal was inaugurated by the Hon'ble Prime Minister on 12th November, 20'lB. Land acquisition process for Ghazipr-rr intermodal tern'rinal is ongoing and out of the 8.917 ha of land required for the terminal, 5.103 ha has been a,lquired by the State Government of UP and handed overto IWAI. The mapping and survey of the remaining 3.8'13 ha of land got delayed due to floods.

The foundation stone for development of the National Waterway-40 (river Ghagra) from Faizabad to Manjhighat was laid on 9th October, 2018. The development of NW-40 includes monthly surveys, fairway development and floating terminals which are to be taken up in 2019- 20.

For the Kumbh Mela, 2019, lwAl in consultation with the Government of u.P. is providing 4 floating terminals on NW-110 (river Yantuna) and 5 temporary Jetties at Chatnag, Sirsa, Sitamarhi, Vindhyachal and Chunar between Prayagraj and Varatrasi on NW-1 (river Ganga) for embarkment and dis-embarkment of piigrirns. -+-

Annex Funds released to the Major Ports under the Sagarmala Programme during 2015-16 to 2017-18.

(Rs. in Crore)

s!. Port Project 201s-16 2016-17 | 2017-18 NO. 1 Cochin Refurbishment 7.48 5.29 Capacity enhancement of Coastal liquid terminal COT and NTB 2 Kolkata lmprovement of road 3.75 connectivity to facilitate trade and port users i a Kolkata Upgradation of the track 1G i-- - 7.00 400 12-14-16-18-1 s-20-21- 22 and 23 at EJC yard i 4 Kolkata Upgrade of existing rail 2.00 1.00 network

5 Kolkata ZnO naitway trne fr-om I ZOOO Durgachak take off point to I 'A' cabin at Durgachak at I

b Kolkata Upgrading berth2 and 11 i 2.51 KPD for coastal

7 v.o Dredging the dock basin for 10.44 Chidambaranar coastal cargo berth at VOCPT -Dredging in front of dedicated coastal berth 8 v.o Development andl I 10.00 Chidambaranar Operation of a full-fledged Truck Parking Terminal adjacent to NHTA opposite i tq Fist,gr'"! r9!ggg_ _ j

I v.o Coastal berth with dredged i 1s 00 14.99 Chidambaranar depth of 10.0m to handle vessels up to 15000 DWT -

10 Visakhapatnam Construction of coastal 30.00 Berth 11 Visakhapatnam Construction grade of I 14eB

rator from __.-H-7 area to_,,_.J-, ! i -5-

Port connectivity Road by passinq Convent Junction 12 Visakhapatnam 2 to 4 laning of port road 20.00 connectivity to NH 5 Phase ll 13 Chennai Coastal Carqo Berth 15.00 12.00 14 Chennai Development of Paved 13 50 storage yard at Chenttai Port for handling exPort carqo 15 Chennai Construction of Bunker 981 berth 50 16 Jawaharlal Construction of Coastal 12 Nehru Port Berth 17 Mormugao Passenger Jetty at Vasco 500 Bav 1B Mormugao Full rake wagon handling B,O line with paving 30m wide