issues

natural

1. Uneven depth
2. Serpentine/frequent meanders
3. Flora and Fauna such as dolphins will be effected after development.
4. Seasonal rivers

manmade

1. Numerous obstacles due to irrigational facilities and power generation sites created
2. Shortage of necessary infrastructure for cargo transportation, such as cargo vessels, inland
waterways, docks etc
3. Preference for faster means of transport such as roads, railways and airlines
4. Interdepartmental and inter-state coordination
5. Excessive silt loads from erosion of uplands due to bad catchment management and increased
deforestation
6. Inadequate vertical and horizontal clearances for plying vessels of economic size in many
traditional waterway routes.
7. Non availability of adequate navigational aids resulting in unsafe passage and high travel time
8. monsoonal nature of rivers,besides proposed routes, being deltaic, meander a lot and,
therefore, their flow is sluggish. The river route kilometre is more than the land route kilometre,
rendering the waterway route more long.
9. religious importance

solutions
natural

1. Uneven depth- River linking project will reduce seasonal variation in river water depth
2. Serpentine/frequent meanders
3. Flora and Fauna such as dolphins will be effected after development.
4. Seasonal rivers

manmade

5. Numerous obstacles due to irrigational facilities and power generation sites created
6. Shortage of necessary infrastructure for cargo transportation, such as cargo vessels, inland
waterways, docks etc-

Apart from the waterways or the channels themselves, these national waterways will also need, and
hence involve the construction of other related infrastructure facilities like riverside jetties and
ports, navigational aids and control points, material handling sites, storage godowns, barge
maintenance and repairing centers, refuelling points, associated dredging equipment, parking areas
for vessels and so on. Some of the port/terminals are planned as multimodal hubs which will
connect rail, road and waterways, for e.g., the multi-modal hub at Varanasi.
Moreover, there is a plan to link many of the national waterways to each other, to roads and
railways and to major ports. This scheme is being called the Integrated National Waterways
Transportation Grid.

7. Preference for faster means of transport such as roads, railways and airlines
8. Interdepartmental and inter-state coordination
9. Excessive silt loads from erosion of uplands due to bad catchment management and increased
deforestation
10. Inadequate vertical and horizontal clearances for plying vessels of economic size in many
traditional waterway routes.
11. Non availability of adequate navigational aids resulting in unsafe passage and high travel time
12. monsoonal nature of rivers,besides proposed routes, being deltaic, meander a lot and,
therefore, their flow is sluggish. The river route kilometre is more than the land route kilometre,
rendering the waterway route more long.
13. religious importance