Consider the following pairs:
1. | National Waterway-1 | Haldia - Allahabad |
2. | National Waterway-2 | Kottapuram - Kollam |
3. | National Waterway-3 | Dhubri-Sadiya |
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
1 only
1 and 2 only
1 and 3 only
1, 2 and 3
Operational National Waterways in the country
Out of the 111 National Waterways (NWs) declared under the National Waterways Act, 2016, 13 NWs are operational for shipping and navigation, and cargo/passenger vessels are moving on them. Details of Operational National Waterways:
Sl. No. | National Waterway (NW) No. | Length (km) | Location | ||
1. | NW-1: Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hooghly River System (Haldia - Allahabad) | 1620 | Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal | ||
2. | NW-2: Brahmaputra River (Dhubri - Sadiya) | 891 | Assam
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3. | NW-3: West Coast Canal (Kottapuram - Kollam), Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals | 205 |
Kerala | ||
4. | NW-4: Phase-1development of the stretch Muktiyala to Vijyawada of river Krishna | 82 | Andhra Pradesh | ||
Waterways in Maharashtra | |||||
5. | (i) NW-10 (Amba River) | 45 | Maharashtra | ||
6. | (ii) NW-83 (Rajpuri Creek) | 31 | |||
7. | (iii) NW-85 (Revadanda Creek - Kundalika River System) | 31 | |||
8. | (iv) NW-91 (Shastri River–Jaigad Creek System) | 52 | |||
National Waterways in Goa | |||||
9. | NW-68 – Mandovi – Usgaon Bridge to Arabian Sea (41 km) | 41 | Goa | ||
10.
| NW-111 – Zuari– Sanvordem Bridge to Mormugao Port Port (50 km). | 50 | |||
National Waterways in Gujarat | |||||
11. | NW-73 - Narmada River | 226 | Gujarat & Maharastra | ||
12. | NW-100 - Tapi River | 436 | |||
13. | Sunderbans Waterways (NW -97): Namkhana to Athara Banki Khal in West Bengal. | 172 | West Bengal (through Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route) | ||
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