Question

What is the inland navigational potential in india?

Answer 1

In India, there is 14,500 navigable land.

Explanation:

• Inland waterway is a network of canals,rivers,etc. which can be used for transportation instead of roads and railways.
• In India,there is approximately 14,500km of navigable land.
• During the early times,Ganga was a busy network .
• But,in recent times its utility fell because of introduction of roadways and railways
• The government has now revived the Ganga as the National Waterway 1(NW1).
• NW1 will ferry the cargo from eastern seaport Haldia to Varanasi,1620km  inland.