The Union Minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari along with Union Secretary of Shipping Rajiv Kumar presenting the award for maximum traffic growth among the major ports for 2015-2016 to chairman of MPT I Jeyakumar, Deputy Chairman Guruprasad Rai and Traffic Manager Bipin Menoth at Panaji on Saturday. Joint secretaries of Ministry Of Shipping Pravir Krishna, Barun Mitra and R K Agarwal are also seen.
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MPT bags Union Ministry of Shipping awards
THE GOAN NETWORK
PANAJI
Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) won two awards at the review meeting for the targets of the year 2016-2017 and the next 5 years conducted by Ministry of Shipping, Government of India for 2015- 16.
The awards were presented by Minister for Shipping, Road, Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari to the chairman of MPT, I Jeykumar. Union secretary Shipping Rajiv Kumar & joint secretary, Ports Pravir Krishna and joint secretary Shipping Barun Mitra and joint secretary Sagarmala Project R K Agarwal and deputy chairman Guruprasad Rai were present.
MPT received the awards for being the winner for maximum traffic growth among all the major ports of the country for the year 2015-2016. MPT also stood first in accumulating maximum score for Result Framework Document (RFD) implementation all round performance.
The award ceremony was held at the Goa Marriott resort on Saturday, during the review meeting. Earlier Nitin Gadkari also met the Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar and Goa Minister of Ports & Tourism Dilip Parulekar and held a discussion regarding the development of MPT and inland waterways in the State. Power Minister & MLA of Mormugao Milind Naik also had a discussion with Gadkari regarding the issue of WISL.
