INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PORTS, SHIPPING & WATERWAYS HEAD OFFICE : A-13, SECTOR-1, NOIDA-201301, DISTT. GAUTAMBUDH NAGAR (U.P.) TELE NO. : 0120- 2544040, 2544036, 2543972 ; FAX NO: 0120-2543973, 2521764 E-mail :[email protected], Website : www.iwai.nic.in INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA MEMBERS OF THE AUTHORITY (During 2019-20) Telephone No. Fax No. Chairperson Dr. Amita Prasad, IAS 0120-2543972 0120-2543973 (From 01.08.2019 onwards) Chairman Sh. Pravir Pandey, IA&AS 0120-2543972 0120-2543973 (From 01.05.2019 to 31.07.2019) Chairman Sh. Jalaj Srivastava, IAS 0120-2543972 0120-2543973 (From 01.04.2019 to 30.04.2019) Member Sh. Sanjay Kumar, IAS 011-23736455 Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor, Ministry of Road Transport, Highways & Shipping (From 01.01.2020 onwards) Member Sh. Rajat Sachar, IES 011-23716619 011-23350648 Sr. Advisor, Ministry of Shipping (From 14.12.2015 onwards) Member Sh. Alok Ranjan, ICAS 0120-2544009 0120-2544009 Member (Finance), IWAI (From 01.09.2016 onwards) Member Sh. Vinit Kumar, I.R.S.E.E. 033-22303451 - Chairman Kolkata Port Trust,Kolkata (From 09.10.2017 onwards) Member Sh. S. K. Gangwar 0120-2521664 - Member (Technical), IWAI (From 31.01.2017 onwards) Member Sh. Shashi Bhushan Shukla, IRS 0120-2543994 0120-2543982 Member (Traffic & Logistics), IWAI (From 01.03.2018 onwards) 3 Annual Report 2019-20 OTHER DETAILS Telephone No. Secretary Col. Manish Pathak 0120-2543994 Auditors COMPTROLLER AND 011-23509600 AUDITOR GENERAL OF INDIA Bankers SYNDICATE BANK 011-23717573 Transport Bhawan, Parliament Street, New Delhi 110 001 SYNDICATE BANK 0120-2511026 Sector-18, Noida 201 301 BANK OF BARODA 011-23448956 Sansad Marg, New Delhi-110001 UNION BANK OF INDIA 0120-2511426 Sector-15, Noida 201 301 PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK 0120-4855002 Sector-18, Noida 201 301 0120-4855001 4 INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA REGIONAL OFFICES Telephone No. Fax No. INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA 0612-2310026 0612-2310029 Gaighat, Post-Gulzarbagh, 0612-2310057 Patna - 800 007 ( Bihar ) 0612-2310028 0612-2310067 0612-2630100 (Terminal) INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA 033-24390393 033-24395570 P-78, Garden Reach Road, 033-24395577 033-24391710 Kolkata - 700 043 ( West Bengal ) 033-24396055 INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA 0361-2570109 0361-2570099 Pandu Port Complex, Pandu 0361-2676925 0361-2570055 Guwahati - 781 012 ( Assam ) 0361-2676927 0361-2676929 INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA 0484-2295064 0484-2389445 National Waterways Road, 0484-2389804 N. H. 47 Bypass, Kannadikkadu, Maradu, Ernakulam - 682 304 ( Kerala ) 5 Annual Report 2019-20 SUB OFFICES / UNITS Telephone No. Fax No. INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA 0532-2561151 0532-2561152 360/F/44, NawabYusuf Road, Civil Lines, 0532-2560537 Allahabad - 211006 ( U.P.) INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA 0542-2505329 52, 2nd floor, Patel Nagar, Nadesar, Varanasi - 221002 (U.P.) 0542-2505329 INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA 07544006484 Room no.-309, 2nd Floor, New S.D.O. Office, Sakrogarh, Sahibganj– 816109 (Jharkhand) INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA 03485-255809 03485-255809 Office Building No. 1, FBP Office Complex, P.O. Farakka Barrage, Distt.Murshidabad - 742212 (West Bengal) INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA 09830508079 Fakirtala, P.O.-MaheshganjSwaroopganj, Nadia-741315 (West Bengal) INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA 0373-2302540 DurgabariRoad Tiniali, A. T. Road, Naliapool Dibrugarh- 786001 (Assam) INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA 0366-2298111 Dhubri Terminal, Free India Ghat, Dhubri - 786005 INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA 0474-2766460 IWT Terminal Cum Office Complex, Ashramam Nr. ESI Hospital, Kollam-691002 INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA 0674-2397334 Premises No.-191, 1st Floor, Baya Baba Math Lane, Unit No. 9, NearRadhe Krishna Temple, Bhuwaneshwar – 751022 (Odisha) INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA 0866-2575123 IWAI Sub Office, Ground Floor, Block-I, Irrigation Office Complex, Governorpet, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh-520002 INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA - 4th Floor, Progressive Mansion Public School Road, Silchar (Assam)-788 005 6 INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA CONTENTS S.No. Title Page No. 1. IWT SECTOR – GENERAL INFORMATION 8 2. ROLE OF IWAI 8 3. DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL WATERWAYS 9 4. NATIONAL WATERWAY (NW) – 1 9 5. NATIONAL WATERWAY (NW) – 2 16 6. NATIONAL WATERWAY (NW) – 3 19 7. NATIONAL WATERWAY (NW) – 4 23 8. NATIONAL WATERWAY (NW) – 5 24 9. NATIONAL WATERWAY (NW) - 16 (BARAK RIVER) 26 10. NEW NATIONAL WATERWAYS 26 11. INDO-BANGLADESH PROTOCOL ON TRANSIT & TRADE 27 12. INDO-MYANMAR KALADAN MULTIMODAL TRANSIT TRANSPORT PROJECT 31 13. HYDROGRAPHY SURVEY ACTIVITITES 32 14. NATIONAL INLAND NAVIGATION INSTITUTE (NINI), PATNA 43 15. DETAILS OF TRAFFIC, CARGO MOVEMENT & OTHER HIGHLIGHTS 47 DURING THE YEAR 16. JAL MARG VIKAS PROJECT ON NW-1 115 17. FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE : INCOME & EXPENDITURE 130 18. IMPLEMENTATION OF OFFICIAL LANGUAGE POLICY OF UNION IN 132 THE AUTHORITY 19. PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATION 132 20. BALANCE SHEET 134 21. INCOME AND EXPENDITURE 135 22. RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS 136 23. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (SCHEDULE -1) 139 24. NOTES TO ACCOUNTS FORM INTEGRAL PART OF FINANCIAL STATEMENT 142 (SCHEDULE-2) 25. AUDITOR'S REPORT (CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS) (ANNEX-A) 154 26. OFFICE-WISE DETAILS OF LAND (ANNEX-B) 159 27. SCHEDULE OF FIXED ASSETS (ANNEX-C) 163 28. SCHEDULES FORMING PART OF THE BALANCE SHEET (SCHEDULE -3 TO 12) 168 29. SCHEDULE OF FIXED ASSETS (SCHEDULE -13) 175 30. SCHEDULES FORMING PART OF THE BALANCE SHEET (SCHEDULE -14 TO 23) 177 31. SCHEDULES FORMING PART OF INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCT. 183 (SCHEDULE -24 TO 26) 32. SCHEDULES FORMING PART OF THE BALANCE SHEET (SCHEDULE -27) 186 33. AUDIT REPORT OF THE C&AG OF INDIA 192 34. MANAGEMENT REPLIES 195 7 Annual Report 2019-20 1. IWT SECTOR – GENERAL INFORMATION (i) Transport sector comprising of railways, roadways, ocean and coastal shipping, inland waterways, pipelines and airways is critical infrastructure for economic development of any country. Navigable waterways are a fuel-efficient, environment friendly and cost-effective mode of transport. Water transport is also a safe, cheap and lower carbon footprint mode of transport. A developed transport system enables optimum cost of transportation in a multimodal network utilizing strengths of all modes on case to case basis. In these corridors, inland waterways can be developed with navigational channel of specified dimensions for making them commercially viable to promote cost effective, environment friendly and fuel efficient mode of transport, especially for bulk goods, hazardous cargo and over dimensional cargo. In some of the developed countries (e.g. USA, China and many countries of Europe), the modal share of the inland transport (IWT) sector is much higher than the IWT sector in India, thus benefitting their economies significantly through a self- sustainable supplementary mode of transportation. (ii) India has a number of rivers, canals, creeks and backwaters which have the potential to be developed and used as cost effective and efficient inland waterways. Till early 20th century, the IWT had been used as an important mode of transportation in various parts of the country. However, due to various factors, including rapid development of road and railways, little industrial development in the country, less attention paid to preservation and development of inland waterways etc, many waterways lost their competitive edge to the rail and road modes. (iii) A major boost to IWT Sector has been provided by the Government of India through enactment of National Waterways Act, 2016 (No.17 of 2016) dated 26th March, 2016 which came into force w.e.f 12th April, 2016. With the enactment of the National Waterways Act, 2016, the total number of national waterways is now 111 including 05 waterways declared through earlier Acts. 111 National Waterways cover a total length of 20375 Kms. spread across 24 States in the country. National Waterways of India are well in line to become the lifeline of the country. Inland Water Transport (IWT) has a potential to supplement the overburdened Railways and congested Roadways. In addition to cargo movement, National Waterways can provide a convenient function in related activities such as carriage of vehicles (in Roll-on-Roll-off mode of cross-ferry) and Tourism including stay and entertainment. (iv) Some of the major constraints which IWT sector in India is currently facing includes – Inadequate discharges in the rivers during lean season resulting in inadequate fairway with depth and width required for round the year operation of IWT vessels of reasonable size; drifting of navigable channel after every flood season due to bank erosion, lack of terminal infrastructure for loading and unloading of cargo and their first and last mile connectivity with road/rail infrastructure; navigational aids for safe and unhindered navigation during day and night and shortage of IWT vessels. To achieve substantial IWT traffic, thrust is therefore on creation of infrastructure (mainly through public funding) and at the same time, augmentation of IWT fleet primarily through private sector 2. ROLE OF IWAI Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) was constituted on 27th October, 1986 vide Inland Waterways Authority of India Act, 1985 for regulation and development of Inland Waterways for the 8 INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY OF INDIA purposes of shipping and navigation. As per section 22 of the IWAI