SAGARMALA PROGRAM

About:

• The National Sagarmala Apex Committee (NSAC) is the apex body providing policy directions and guidance for port led development-Sagarmala projects and reviews its implementation.
  
  
• The NSAC was constituted on 13.05.2015 by the Union Cabinet and is chaired by Minister for Ports, Shipping & Waterways with Cabinet Ministers from stakeholder central Ministries and Chief Ministers & Administrators of Maritime States and Union territories respectively as members.
  
  
• The committee shall review the Sagarmala program.
  
  
• Holistic development of coastal communities through a new initiative ‘Sagartat Samriddhi Yojana’ will also be taken up for discussion in the meeting.
  
  

Sagarmala Program

• Sagarmala is a National Programme to accelerate economic development in the country by harnessing the potential of India’s 7,500 km long coastline and 14,500 km of potentially navigable waterways.
  
  
• It was announced by the Prime Minister in 2014 and approved by the Union Cabinet on 25th March 2015.
  
  
• It holds a vision to reduce logistics cost for both domestic and EXIM cargo with optimal infrastructure investment.
  
  
• The projects under the scheme have been categorized into five pillars:
  • Port modernization & new port development,
    
    
  • Port connectivity enhancement,
    
    
  • Port-led industrialization,
    
    
  • Coastal community development and
    
    
  • Coastal shipping and Inland water transport