The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) has conducted trial run from Dhamara to Rajnagar on National Waterways (NW)-5.
This was informed by the Inland Waterways Deputy Project Director. After failing to keep its dates for several times, , the IWAI on Sunday finally managed to conduct the trial run. The NW-5, a Rs 4,209-crore project, is one of six National Waterways in the country and covers Odisha and East Coast Canal in West Bengal. Once developed, NW-5 would cover 623 km through different stretches from Talcher-Dhamra in the Brahmani River, a distance of 265 km, including the Kharsua and Dhamra river systems, the Charbatia-Dhamra stretch of Matai River of 40 km, and the Mangalgadi-Paradip stretch of the Mahanadi River Delta running for 101 km, besides the 217-km Geonkhali-Charbatia stretch of the East Coast Canal.