Infrastructural projects include the installation of advanced simulators and solar power plants; implementing better sports facilities, and renovating student hostels.
Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW) Sarbananda Sonowal visited the Cochin Shipyard and unveiled advanced machinery to enhance the country's shipbuilding capacity.
"Today, on the auspicious occasion of our party's Sthapana Diwas, we pay our heartfelt tributes to the stalwarts who laid the ideological foundation of our party -- Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee ji, Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya ji, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji, Lal Krishna Advani ji, and others whose sac
Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW) Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday flagged off the 'Maritime Awareness Walkathon' in the national capital.
The Lok Sabha passed the Coastal Shipping Bill, 2024, paving the way for a dedicated legal framework for coastal trade as the maritime sector aims to provide a economical, reliable and sustainable mode of transportation as it decongest road and rail network.
Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal will move the Coastal Shipping Bill, 2024, in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The bill aims promote coasting trade and encourage domestic participation.
Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW), Sarbananda Sonowal on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the Congress, accusing it of decades of neglect towards tribal communities, including indigenous Rabha people.
Sonowal also introduced 'Indian Ports Bill, 2025', aimed at consolidating laws related to port management, promoting integrated port development, and enhancing the ease of doing business in the maritime sector.
The Lok Sabha has passed the Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill, 2024, which aims to modernize regulations governing the responsibilities, liabilities, rights, and immunities of carriers involved in the transportation of goods by sea.
The bill aims to consolidate the law relating to ports, promote integrated port development, facilitate ease of doing business and ensure the optimum utilization of India's coastline by establishing and empowering State Maritime Boards for effective management of ports other than major po
Under the LOI, both sides will collaborate on maritime digitalisation and decarbonization projects, including identifying relevant stakeholders who could contribute to the effort, and work towards formalising the partnership through a memorandum of understanding on a Singapore-India Green
During the day, the Minister held important meetings with the Senior Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong as well as Philippe Tabarot, the Minister of Transport, France.