Mangaluru: Not only the proposed closure of Shiradi Ghat – the main relationship between the coast and the capital – will affect ordinary people, but will cause the country to lose most of the revenue in terms of cargo flowing to the new Mangalore Port Trust – The Gateway of Karnataka.
The main stakeholder, the new Mangalore port trust presents a bleak image for the port, in particular, and the state and state in general, if Shiradi Ghat is closed for six months.
NMPT states that Exim traders, state of Karnataka and NMPT can lose up to 50 percent of the cargo flowing through NH 75 to other countries.
NMPT includes the following losses: 25,000 TEUs (3.75 lakh tons) containers; 1.70 lakh tons of edible oil cargo; 40,000 tons of fertilizer and lakh tons of steel rolls.
It also shows that exporters and importers will face huge losses in the form of an increase in transportation costs which in turn will make their goods more expensive in the international market which results in loss of orders in the future.
PPT presentation prepared by the NMP which will be presented to Deputy Commissioner DK in January has never seen light on the day when Shiradi Ghat inspection was postponed.
MP Nalin Kumar Kateel has directed the DKS Deputy Commissioner to carry out stretching checks, after the decision (at the closing) will be taken.
PPT, which was given to the Commerce Kanara room, also noted that cutting connectivity to Bengaluru would not only be a big setback for ordinary people, but important commodity movements such as LPG, petroleum products, cement and cargo were easily damaged (fish that were easily damaged (fish , Vegetables and fruits, flowers etc.) to Hinterland will be greatly affected because the supply chain end to tip will be disrupted, especially during the winter and if extended, export of Agri products, especially Gherkin, coffee, in particular, especially from Hassan, Kunigal, Bengaluru and MySuru, will be very affected.
The NMP suggests that two options can be seen, one to reduce closing time, if there is inevitable closure, by doing all important allied work, plus mobilization of all materials and construction equipment and the second option will avoid complete closure by having a temporary bypass road from Donigal to the stretch of Maranhalli for Kendara’s trip N Weight carrying all kinds of cargo, including containers of all sizes, with timings arranged.
For NHAI, the contract or part of the Expressway eight Lane Eight Lane Greenfield Delhi-Vadodara-Mumbai project created a note by placing the quality of the sidewalk concrete for a four-lane highway with a length of 2,580 meters (around 10.32 KM lanes) within 24 hours on February 1 2021.
Citing this, the NMP shows that taking six months for 10km stretching will be 0.2 KM or 200 meters a day, which is very slow, especially considering the criticality of NH 75.
Engineers in the stretch of stretching admitted that it was not a straight path without despair such as greenfield Road, but complete six-month closure is completely unacceptable, it is also without an alternative to the same stretch.
While one side has a hill, forest, others have a deep canyon.
There is a need to build embankments from several feet below to increase the road on them.
Shiradi Ghat Closure: Karnataka Can Loss 50 Percent Cargo to Other Countries
