{"id":1418,"date":"2008-07-11T18:20:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T22:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2008-07-15T20:23:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T00:23:48","slug":"orissa-plans-to-augment-national-waterway-5-with-additional-river-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/1418","title":{"rendered":"Orissa plans to augment National Waterway 5 with additional river routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1080712\/jsp\/nation\/story_9537558.jsp\">a report in Telegraph<\/a> these routes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jaleswar &#8211; Kirtania on Subarnarekha<\/li>\n<li>Balasore &#8211; Chandipur on Budhabalanga (12 km)<\/li>\n<li>Rajnagar &#8211; Aul , Aul &#8211; Aetepur and Singhapur &#8211; Aul on Kharsuan (63 km)<\/li>\n<li>Rushikulya &#8211; Badanadi on Rushikulya<\/li>\n<li>Netapur &#8211; Pathna on Kushabhadra<\/li>\n<li>Kundhei &#8211; Siroi on Prachi<\/li>\n<li>Balabhadrapur &#8211; Nuagarh on Daya (9 km)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Following is an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1080712\/jsp\/nation\/story_9537558.jsp\">that report in Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story\" align=\"left\">The state government has initiated steps to conduct surveys to identify river stretches having the potential for detailed hydro-graphic surveys and detailed project reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" align=\"left\">Rail India Techno Economic Services (RITES) has been engaged by the state government for conducting the studies, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" align=\"left\">As many as 13 rivers &#8230; <strong><\/strong>were identified by the government for the studies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" align=\"left\">Of them, a 12km stretch of Budhabalang, three stretches comprising a total of 63km in the Kharsuan and 9km of the Daya have been identified for further detailed hydro-graphic surveys and traffic studies to be conducted by RITES.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" align=\"left\">Also locations, for the provision of infrastructure, would also be identified in these stretches, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" align=\"left\">According to preliminary studies, the identified rivers have enough potential and economic viability to serve as an effective waterway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" align=\"left\">RITES has, therefore, suggested the development of an inland water transport corridor comprising three stretches of the Kharsuan river from Rajnagar to Aul-Singhpur-Aetpur and extend it up to Jajpur along the Brahmani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" align=\"left\">The body has proposed to develop another corridor on the Daya up to Balugaon on the banks of the Chilika lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" align=\"left\">At present, the state directorate of ports and inland water transports run passenger launch services in Chandbali, Chilika and Astarang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" align=\"left\">Initiatives are being taken by the directorate to start motor launch service in reservoirs of major and medium dam projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\" align=\"left\">A river project report for construction of jetties and waiting halls in navigational routes at a cost of Rs 5.34 crore, prepared by ocean engineering centre of the IIT, Chennai, has been submitted to Nabard for assistance under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per a report in Telegraph these routes are: Jaleswar &#8211; Kirtania on Subarnarekha Balasore &#8211; Chandipur on Budhabalanga (12 km) Rajnagar &#8211; Aul , Aul &#8211; Aetepur and Singhapur &#8211; Aul on Kharsuan (63 km) Rushikulya &#8211; Badanadi on Rushikulya Netapur &#8211; Pathna on Kushabhadra Kundhei &#8211; Siroi on Prachi Balabhadrapur &#8211; Nuagarh on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,697,30,7,570,6,702],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-balasore","category-inland-waterways","category-district-kendrapada","category-district-khordha","category-national-waterway-5","category-district-puri","category-state-river-routes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}