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Chennai Port-Maduravoyal elevated corridor: NHAI-TN govt to hold discussions soon, Union minister says

The next round of meeting between the Tamil Nadu government and National Highways Authority of India officials will be convened soon to discuss work on Chennai Port Maduravoyal elevated corridor, said Union minister of state for finance and shipping Pon Radhakrishnan on Tuesday.
Chennai Port-Maduravoyal elevated corridor: NHAI-TN govt to hold discussions soon, Union minister says
Pon Radhakrishnan
CHENNAI: The next round of meeting between the Tamil Nadu government and National Highways Authority of India officials will be convened soon to discuss work on Chennai Port Maduravoyal elevated corridor, said Union minister of state for finance and shipping Pon Radhakrishnan on Tuesday.
Talking to reporters after inaugurating the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Port Conclave 2018 here, the minister said the alignment of the project had been changed in a couple of places.

Following this, the National Highways Authority of India has prepared a new revised detailed project report (DPR). Further discussions would be held with the state government within the next 10 days, he said.
Answering a question on creating a port in Inayam in Kanyakumari district, he said the ministry had received a detailed project report. The ministry received the report recently. Further action would be taken based on the report, he said.
There are 577 projects under Sagarmala project. They will be implemented at a cost of Rs 8.57 lakh crore. Execution of the project period is between 2015 and 2035.
Under this programme, investments had been made in work such as port modernisation, development of new ports, port connectivity enhancement, port-linked industrialisation and coastal community development, he said.
Kailash Kumar Aggarwal, joint secretary, shipping, said shortcomings in various areas of port management had been identified. They included adequate port infrastructure, less productivity, high share of road in intermodal transport mix, lack of industrial infrastructure near the ports, involvement of multiple agencies, lack of adequate skilled manpower and high cost of logistics.
Since the start of the Sagarmala programme in 2016, capacity of major ports has increased from 965 tonne to 1,451 tonnes per annum, which is 50% increase and an additional capacity of 190 tonne is expected to be added by 2020.
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