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SAGARMALA PROJECT: DEDICATED TO

PORT DEVELOPMENT

The Sagarmala programme was Waterways
launched in March 2015 with the
goals of modernising ports and
developing new ports, improving
port connectivity, achieving
port-based industrialization, and
developing coastal communities.

The capacity of 13 major ports Bharatmala Pariyojana
was 871.52 MTPA at the end of
March 2014, and it is expected Under Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase-I,
to increase by 79 percent to 9,000 km of economic corridors are
1560.61 MTPA by the end of planned for implementation. Projects
March 2021. totaling 6,087 km in length have been
sanctioned, with the remaining length
set to be approved over the next two
According to the Ministry of fiscal years. So far, a total length of
Ports, Shipping, and Waterways 1,613 km has been completed, with
report card, there are 802 the remaining length expected to be
projects worth Rs 5.48 lakh crore completed by 2026–27.
with a target completion date
of 2035, of which 194 projects
worth Rs 99 thousand crore have
been completed. The PPP model
is being used for 29 projects
totaling Rs 45,000 crore.

Furthermore, 218 projects
totaling Rs 2.12 lakh crore are
currently under construction and
are expected to be completed in
two years. Aside from that, 390
projects worth Rs 2.37 lakh crore Parvat Mala
are in the works. The "Parvatmala Yojana" has been
launched for the first time in the
Port-based industrialization is country for regions such as Himachal
being implemented in order to Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and
promote industrial and export Kashmir, and the North-East.This
growth along the coast. This will ropeway project, which can transport
be accomplished through the 14 6000–8000 passengers per hour,
coastal economic zones that run is based on 3S (a type of cable car
along the coast. On the Indian system) or equivalent technologies.
Ocean, a new deep-draft port is Contracts for eight 60-kilometer-long
being built at Wadhawan. projects will be awarded in 2022–23.

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