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Waterways to be build up to Nepal-India Border Areas

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Waterways to be build up to Nepal-India Border Areas
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February 13: Indian Minister for Water Resource, River Development and Gange Rejuvenation Nitin Gadkari has reportedly said that India is expanding its inland waterways up to Trivenighat along the Nepal-India border within a year and urged the Nepal government to take maximum benefit out of it.

Gadkari made such remarks during a bilateral meeting in New Dehli on Tuesday with a Nepali delegation led by visiting Minister for Energy, Water Resource and Irrigation Barshaman Pun.

According to Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), the Indian side told the Nepali delegation that they can take maximum benefit from the waterways adding that the route up to Trivenighat would be linking Kolkata to Haldiya in India to Narayani River in Nepal.

Spokesperson of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) Prabal Adhikari, who was present at the ministerial-level meeting, said that the two ministers held discussions on key issues regarding the ongoing progress taking place in water transportation.

Likewise, Minister Pun and his Indian counterpart Gadkari also touched upon the issues to bring ship into operation that was discussed with the Indian leaders during Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s last India visit, reported RSS.

India is developing some 1,400 kms long waterways from Kolkata to Haldiya to Banaras.

 

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