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The Karnataka Maritime Board (KMB) has identified 10 islands arsenic suitable for undertaking land tourism-related projects.
Of them 3 are successful Udupi territory and the remaining successful Uttara Kannada district.
The islands successful Udupi district, peculiarly successful Udupi taluk, are Dariya Bhaudurgad (27 acres), Malpe (8.2 acres), and Ayaba (3.9 acres).
Of the islands identified successful Uttara Kannada, 4 are successful Karwar taluk: Kurumgad (5.05 acres), Madhyalingad (6.16 acres), Devgad (12.11 acres), and Mongeragu (6.56 acres). Another land identified successful Ankola taluk is Ankani Cheggudu (11.68 acres). The different 2 islands, located successful Bhatkal taluk, are Hog (16.22 acres) and Kirikunda (2.1 acres).
According to the KMB, the islands person been projected for improvement nether a public-private concern (PPP) model, based connected the Design, Build, Finance, Operate, and Transfer (DBFOT) basis.
Project cost
The committee said that it mightiness necessitate an concern of ₹313.5 crore (₹225.5 crore for 7 islands successful Uttara Kannada and ₹88 crore for 3 islands successful Udupi district) to make tourism-related projects successful 10 islands.
The State has 106 islands wrong 12 nautical miles of the coast. Of them, 20 islands autumn wrong the jurisdiction (within notified larboard limits) of the KMB.
The committee told the Coastal Karnataka Tourism Conclave present connected Saturday that the State had introduced targeted argumentation interventions done the Karnataka Maritime Development Policy, 2024, explicitly encouraging land development.
Mangaluru to Maravanthe ferry service
The KMB said different investible task was to make a 110-km-long transport corridor betwixt Mangaluru and Maravanthe successful Udupi district.
There could beryllium 5 stops — Old Mangaluru Port, Hejamadi, Malpe, Kota, and Maravanthe. The task outgo is estimated to beryllium ₹37.79 crore, and the concession play projected is 20 years. Absolute gross projected to the relation is ₹ 179.29 crore.
The imaginativeness of the task is to found a sustainable maritime transport spine connected Karnataka’s coastal line, integrating tourism and commerce portion redefining businesslike and scenic mobility on the National Highway-66 corridor, the KMB said.
Referring to the relation of the committee successful facilitating investible projects, it said it would continuously handhold the capitalist during the improvement and implementation, widen quality solution enactment to guarantee creaseless implementation, and show and coordinate to guarantee timely and effectual transportation of the project.
