A ship carries cargo from India to Bangladesh on the Brahmaputra. Similar step is being taken in Orissa too Bhubaneswar, July 9: Plans are afoot to develop a national waterway (NW-5) connecting the Brahmani and Mahanadi with the now-defunct East Coast Canal of the British days, extending up to Geonkhali in Bengal, at an estimated cost of Rs 2,000 crore.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/task-force-fast-green-waterway-naveen-push-action-river-canal-network-across-orissa-bengal
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/telegraph-kolkata
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/canal-irrigation
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/riverine-ecology
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/transport
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/orissa
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/west-bengal
