Waterways

✅Cheapest 

✅National Waterways

 

1. Ganga River between Allahabad & Haldia→ NW : 1 (1620km)

 

2. Brahmaputra River between Sodiya & Dhubri (891km)→ 

NW: 2

 

3. The West – Coast canal in Kerala (Kottapurma – Komman, Udyogamandal  

& Champakkara Canals – 205km) – NW:3

 

🔸Other Inland Waterways

✅Godavari, Krishna, Barak, Sunderbans, Buckingham Canal, Brahmani, East  

•West Canal, Damodar Valley corporation Canal. 

•95% trade volume: Sea

🔆India waterways network map

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✍ Source - NCERT

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