Union Minister Sonowal launches ‘Sagar Samriddhi’ to bring transparency, efficiency

• Government launched ‘SAGAR SAMRIDDHI’ recently.
• It is an online dredging monitoring system.

Aim

• To accelerate ‘Waste to Wealth’ initiative of the government.

Who developed it?

• This system has been developed by National Technology Centre for Ports, Waterways and Coasts (NTCPWC) the technological arm of Ministry of Ports,Shipping and Waterways.

Key features

• The new technology brings in marked improvement against the old system of Draft & Loading Monitor (DLM) system.
• The system will bring in synergy among multiple input reports.
• The ‘Sagar Samriddhi’ monitoring system will allow:
  • Daily and monthly progress Visualisation,
  • Dredger performance and downtime monitoring,
  • easy location track data with snapshot of loading, unloading and idle time .

Significance

• The annual maintenance dredging at Major Ports and Waterways is around 100 million cubic meters, for which about Rs.1000 crores are spent each year by the Ports and IWAI.
• Now with implementation of the Dredging guidelines and by using the Sagar Samriddhi, online dredging monitoring system, the dredging cost will be greatly reduced along with bringing in more transparency and efficiency in the overall system.

Prelims Take Away

• SAGAR SAMRIDDHI Portal
• NTCPWC