Tnpsc Group 4 Geography Notes 11

              

• Water Ways divided in 1. Inland Water ways 2. Over Seas
• In India Inland waterway length is 14,500KM (5685 KM Rivers, 400 KM Canels)
• IWAI - Inland Waterways Authority of India
• IWAI - Established 27th October 1986, Headquarter Noida, Uttar Pradesh
• In India there are 5 National Waterways they are:-

Sl.No	Waterways	Stretch	Km	Established
1	N W1	Allahabad-Haldia Stretch of Ganga	1620	October 1986
2	NW 2	Saidiya-Dhubri Stretch of Bramaputhra	891	1st September 1988
3	NW 3	Kollam-Kottapuram Stretch of West Coast Canel, Champakara Canal and Udyogmandal Canel	205	February 1993
4	NW 4	Bradrachalam-Rajamundry and Wazirabad Vijayawada Stretch of Krishna Godavari river system along with Kakinad Puducherry Canel Network	1095	25th November 2008
5	NW 5	Mangalgadi-Paradeep and Talcher – Dhamara Stretch of the Mahanati, Brahmani river along with the East Coast Canel	623	November 2008

• Some other Inland Waterways are 1. Mandavi 2.Zuari 3.Cumberjua 4. Sunderbans 5.Barak 6.Backwaters of Kerela
• Nehru Trophy Boat Race held Backwaters in Kerala (VALLAMKALI)

Ocen Routes :-

• India has 7516 KM of Long Coast with 13 Major Ports and 200 Minor and Intermediate ports in India.
• Medium and Intermediate Ports Controlled by State Government
• West Coast Major Ports are 1. Jawaharlal Nehru 2. Kandla 3. Kochin 4. Marmagoa
  5. Mumbai 6.New Mangalore
• East Coast Major Ports are 1. Chennai 2. Ennore 3.Haldia 4. Kolkatta 5. Paradip 6. Tuticorin 7.Visagapattinam
• India is Sixteenth Largest Ship Owning Country in the World
• India is Second Largest Ship Owning Country in Asia
• India has 4 Major Ship Building Yards are
  1. Hindustan Shipyard at Visakapattinam
  2. Garden Reach Workshop at Kolkata
  3. Mazagaon Dock Mumbai
  4. Kochi Shipyard Kochi
• India Portr Acts 1908 and Major Port Trust Act 1963 allow private investment in Ports.

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