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IWT AND RURAL CONNECTIVITY – INDIAN SCENARIO
| 题名： | IWT AND RURAL CONNECTIVITY – INDIAN SCENARIO |
| 作者： | Anirban BHADRA, B.E |
| 关键词： | IWT ; RURAL CONNECTIVITY |
| 摘要： | Rural population in India, about 630 million, is primarily engaged in agricultural pursuits. Adequate transport system, to link the rural setting to market/ distribution centres and for pursuits of economic development and empowerment, has been a thrust area. In rural development planning process, so far importance has been given to road development. Through these efforts, over last 30 years, the percentage of villages connected by road has increased to about 50%. Still over 0.3 million villages (population 500 to 1500) in India remain without adequate transport links. This lack of accessibility is highly correlated with the prevailing poverty levels amongst rural populace. The cost of developing all weather roads deep into rural areas is high some where wellnigh impossible. This is particularly so in deltaic region of Sunderbans in West Bengal state, Mahanadi & Bramhani river delta system in Orissa state, Godavari & Krishna river delta areas in Andhra Pradesh state and west coast canal in Southern west coast of India – Kerala. Earlier, Inland Water Transport System played a dominant role in development of trade and commerce in catchment areas of the navigable river and canal systems of India. IWT’s importance dwindled with degrading fairway, falling LAD and development of road transport. Over the time, traffic on roads has increased to saturation levels. Even the projected improvement of roads may not reduce the congestion levels significantly. Recent studies have re-established that the revitalisation of IWT can benefit the India’s economy as a whole and in particular the rural economy. India is blessed with a natural gift of vast inland water courses - rivers and canals. About 15,000 Km of waterways have navigation potential. So far only one fourth of this potential has been fully exploited as a transport corridor. Fuller exploitation is being addressed. The Author dwells on the development of the vital transport linkages to a large rural population of India particularly in the deltaic and coastal regions where a vast network of rivers/canals exist criss-crossing the regions. The Government of India’s plan and policy support to develop water transport is briefly enumerates. May be these information will be of interest to the international community having particular interest in the global scenario of inland water transport development. |
| 总页数： | Proceedings of the 30th PIANC-AIPCN Congress. Sydney Australia. 22-26 Sept. 2002. pp12 |
| 报告类型： | 科技报告 |
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