The government on Sunday unveiled a major policy for cargo promotion, ‘Jalvahak’, to boost long haul cargo movement via inland waterways across National Waterways on rivers Ganga, Brahmaputra and Barak. “With its advantage of being an economical, ecologically sound and efficient mode of transportation, we want to boost cargo movement via waterways, to decongest the railways and roadways. Jalvahak scheme …
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The story so far: A month after setting sail on the Ganga from Patna, the MV Lal Bahadur Shastri carrying 200 metric tonnes of food grains for the Food Corporation of India, docked at Guwahati’s Pandu port on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra on March 6. The docking of the vessel carrying 200 MT of food grains for the …
