Problems of inland water transport ranges from economical, political , geographical, political, cultural criterias.
1. From the economics point of view, the inland water transport may require separate fare structure and viability of such transport. 5 year separate data has to be taken and analysis needs to be done. Although from th experience of the developed countries, water transport has less expenditure as compared to road freight transport. But still this needs to be confirmed in context of India
2. Water transport comes under state subject. So transporting across the borders of state will be fair until and unless there is no hassle among the states relating to the transport guidelines.
3. Environmentally also, there are issues relating to ganges dolphin, irrawady dolphin, gharials etc. Gnages dolphin and gahrials are endangered. Transport may create ecosystem damage in the water.
4. Pollution in water may be another problem.
However despite such problems, water transport has prospects such as:
1. Significant contribution to the GDP due to seamless transport of goods. Also due to the fact that there are nearly 1 crore rivers in India. However only 20 of them are major water basins such as Indus, Ganges Brahmputra and so on.
2. Gives an insight to the developing world like Africa, South American countries about how we are implenting water transport.
3. Attracts investment from institutions like World Bank.
So the idea is to bring more innovative solutions to the problems of such water transport. Not only mechanised transport but also renewable technologies that boost water transport need to be brought on board.
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