[sbinews] APEX Authority for Sagar Mala Project
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- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:57:56 +0500
The shipping ministry is contemplating setting up an apex body — along the
lines of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which implemented the
PM’s highway programme — to monitor and implement the PM’s Sagar Mala project.
According to sources in the ministry, this could be an existing body like the
National Maritime Board or a fresh body. The shipping ministry is also
proposing to strengthen the Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP). Both
proposals have significant implications for the maritime sector and merely
require a notification from the ministry for enforcement.
TAMP, which is currently run by a chairman and two part-time members, is likely
to get additional two full-time members — a judicial expert and a shipping
expert — to make the body more democratic in its functioning.
This brings to a close over two-year long deliberations on converting TAMP —
the tariff regulator for the 13 government-owned major ports — into an
appellate authority. Converting TAMP into an appellate authority would have
freed major port trusts and private operators at major ports to fix and revise
their own tariffs, and TAMP would only be approached if they had any
complaints. New tariffs would be enforced only after the complaint is disposed
off by the appellate authority.
It is felt that the concept of appellate authority may not work in a country
like India where every action is likely to be contested by the public, creating
more dissent and delays in a sector that is now targeting rapid growth under
Sagar Mala. The move also reinforces Sagar Mala’s guiding principles of
opposing anything which imposes an additional cost burden on consumers by
preventing private operators from charging exorbitant rates.
Ports other than those designated as ‘major’ have been posing a threat to the
business of major ports, reportedly accounting for about 25% of the total
traffic handled in the country. The major ports have therefore been lobbying to
bring the minor ports also under the purview of TAMP, though there is as yet no
firm signal from the ministry that this is also being considered.
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