NHAI, Shipping Ministry for road circulation plan at Mormugao
The NHAI has signed a MoU with the Ministry of Shipping, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for development of a road circulation plan for ease of movement of break bulk cargo at Mormugao.
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The development is part of seventy-nine port road connectivity projects which includes coastal roads identified under Sagarmala Programme during the Integrated Transport and Logistic Summit held from 3rd to 5th May, 2017 in New Delhi. The plan is part of a Rs 2,823 crore modernisation of the MPT which includes the double tracking of the railway line from Hospet to Vasco da Gama at the cost of Rs 1,458 crore besides also the redevelopment of berth 3 into a multipurpose berth while berths 8 and 9 into multipurpose terminals while also constructing a Finger Jetty at Vasco Bay for Liquid Cargo, Passenger and Fishing at Mormugao at the cost of Rs 1,315 crore.
Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said that the State Government was considering a out of court settlement with the holders of the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) lands even as the Congress and Parrikar sparred over why the land was allotted in the first place.
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Published Aug 1, 2017, 4:19 AM IST
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PANAJIThe BJP government has been promising to unlock the SEZ land for the last five years with Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar now back at the helm, Parrikar said that he would renewed efforts in this regard. "We are trying to work out a thing on SEZ. We want to speak to them, in which we get the land back. More than 38-lakh square metres of land was given. It was given by the Congress government," Parrikar told the House will replying to the discussion on demands for…
