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Work connected the ₹78.28 crore coastal berth and 15-km Class III waterway on Swarna stream astatine Hangarkatta Port, successful Udupi territory successful Karnataka, nether the Sagarmala strategy volition commencement erstwhile the Central Government accords the last approval, according to officials successful the Inland Water Transport Department.
A 200-metre agelong jetty for the coastal berth would travel up adjacent to the sportfishing jetty astatine the larboard successful the rima of rivers Swarna and Seetha arsenic per the proposal. All the indispensable formalities, including coastal regularisation portion clearance, situation clearance, and tendering, person been completed. The task is awaiting the last motion from the Centre for commencement of work, officials said.
Philip D’Costa from Kundapura has bagged the declaration for operation of the coastal berth astatine an estimated outgo of ₹48 crore. Another ₹28 crore is required for dredging the navigation transmission portion the remaining sum would beryllium utilised for instauration of ancillary facilities.
Once functional, the coastal berth would facilitate handling of vessels up to 1,000 tonnes DWT, and greatly payment question of coastal cargo arsenic good arsenic tiny cargo vessels from different countries. The berth arsenic good arsenic the waterway successful the Swarna would facilitate proscription of goods to Udupi and adjacent areas successful the district, the authoritative said.
Completion of the coastal berth task astatine Hangarkatta whitethorn instrumentality a year. The archetypal task would beryllium dredging. If the enactment could commencement by January 2026, the dredging and operation of a diaphragm partition for the jetty could beryllium completed earlier the onset of monsoon, the authoritative explained. Post-Monsoon, the remaining enactment could beryllium executed, helium added.
Other coastal berths
Responding to an unstarred question by Udupi-Chikkamagaluru Lok Sabha Member Kota Srinivas Poojary successful the Lok Sabha recently, Union Minister for Shipping, Ports and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal said, “Along with the Hangarkatta coastal berth, coastal berths were besides projected successful Karwar (₹73 crore), Gangolli (₹95.88 crore), Old Mangaluru Port-Bengre (₹65 crore), and a dedicated Lakshadweep Jetty astatine Mangaluru Old Port (₹75.75 crore).
Of these, operation of the coastal berth astatine Bengre-Mangaluru is successful the precocious signifier portion that of Lakshadweep Jetty is astatine the signifier of obtaining situation clearance, the ports section authoritative said. The section has kept the Gangolli coastal berth task connected clasp due to the fact that of the beingness of mangroves successful the projected site, the authoritative added.
