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Report of the Sub-Group (LIGHTHOUSES & LIGHTSHIPS) set up by the Working Group on Shipping & Inland Water Transport for the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012) PRESENTED BY DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF LIGHTHOUSES & LIGHTSHIPS (Ministry of shipping, road transport & highways, govt. of india) deep bhawan, a-13, sector-24, noida(up)-201301 DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF LIGHTHOUSES and LIGHTSHIPS FORMULATION OF 11TH FIVE-YEAR PLAN PROPOSALS (2007-2012) ELEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN PROPOSALS (2007-2012) PREFACE
(i) Director General of Lighthouses & Lightships Chairman (ii) Rep. of INSA Member (iii) Rep. of DG Shipping Member (iv) Rep. of IWAI Member (v) Representative of Kandla Port Trust Member (vi) Chief Hydrographer to the Govt. of India or his Rep. Member (vii) Director (Mech.), Dept. of Shipping Member (viii) Dy. Advisor, (Transport), Planning Commission Member (ix) Dy. Secretary (MM), Dept. of Shipping Member (x) Director (Electronics), Directorate General of Member/Convener Lighthouses & Lightships
“To formulate development programme during the 11th Five Year Plan for lighthouses & lightships
DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF LIGHTHOUSES and LIGHTSHIPS FORMULATION OF 11TH FIVE-YEAR PLAN PROPOSALS (2007-2012) DIRECTORATE OF LIGHTHOUSES and LIGHTSHIPS ELEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN PROPOSALS (2007-2012) 1. Introduction: 1.1 For centuries shipping has been a major means of transport to support world commerce. There has always been a need for ships to navigate accurately, safely and expeditiously and to assist in this, many authorities world over have provided Aids to Navigation in and around their coastal waters. The Directorate of Lighthouses and Lightships is one such national agency, which in accordance with the proviso made in Lighthouse Act, 1927, caters to the need of Aids to Marine Navigation in and around the coastal waters of India stretching over 7500 km.
2. Organizational Structure: 2.1 The Directorate is headed by the Director General for the purpose of administration and management of Lighthouses. Four Deputy Director Generals and ten Directors in the Engineering discipline of Civil, Electronics and Mechanical assist him. The coast line is divided into 7 lighthouse districts with headquarters at Jamnagar, Mumbai, Cochin, Chennai, Vishakhapatnam, Kolkata and Port Blair. Each district is headed by a Director (Regional), who has under him officers belonging to various engineering disciplines.
4. International Best Practices: The technology adopted by the Directorate in the field of aids to navigation is at par with the international standards. In this endeavour, the Directorate continuously interacts with the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA). IALA, having its headquarters at Paris (France), is a non- governmental organization bringing together the services of organizations responsible for provision and maintenance Aids to Marine navigation and allied activities, at sea and on inland waterways. The mission of IALA is to foster the safe, economic and efficient movement of vessels, through improvement and harmonization of aids to navigation world-wide and other appropriate means, for benefit of the maritime community and the protection of environment. The IALA promotes co-operation and assistance between various member countries by collection and dissemination of information so as to take up development of multipurpose navigational systems for enhancing maritime safety. The Association coordinates the IALA’s work with a long and growing list of other international bodies like – International Maritime Organization (IMO), Permanent International Association of Navigational Congresses (PIANC), International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), International Maritime Pilots’ Association (IMPA), International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH), International Harbour Master’s Association (IHMA), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), International Electro-Technical Commission (IEC), Committee International Radio-Maritime (CIRM) etc. IALA is developing an effective compatibility with IMO so that the recommendations and guidelines of IALA become mandatory on the part of national authorities responsible for management of Aids to Marine Navigation. 5. Internal Resources:
5.2 The light dues are levied on the basis of Net Registered Tonnage (NRT) of the vessels. Presently the Directorate is charging light dues on foreign going vessels only at the rate of Rs.8.00 per tonne. 5.3 After meeting the revenue expenditure of the Directorate out of the total receipts, the balance is transferred to General Reserve Fund. An amount of Rs 508.00 crore is available in the General Reserve Fund as on 31.3.2006. Capital Expenditure on the plan schemes of the Directorate is met out of its own resources to the extent the amount is available in the GRF and the uncovered balance is met out of general revenues of the Govt. as a loan to be repaid subsequently.
6. Aids to Marine Navigation: 6.1 The Directorate of Lighthouses and Lightships is at present maintaining a number of Aids to Marine Navigation, details of which are as given below: i) Lighthouses : 169 Nos. ii) Lightships : 01 Nos. iii) Differential Global Positioning System : 22 Nos.
6.2 With the advent of electronic aids to navigation, the lighthouse technology too has evolved. The Second World War era saw the advent of Radar, Loran and Decca. The sixties were dedicated to birth of satellite navigation, which finally matured with the launching of global positioning system (GPS). The block-1 satellites of GPS were launched in early eighties and the full constellation of 24 satellites came into existence in early nineties. The differential global positioning system (DGPS), enhancing the accuracy of GPS, was inducted in the lighthouse service. The Radar technology further matured and deployment of Radar Transponders from early seventies became the requirement for enhancing the safety of the navigation. The DGLL too adopted this technology in the form of Racon. Even the concept used in Racon has changed from slow sweep to frequency agility necessitating the Directorate to go for such system from 1995 onwards. Vessel Traffic Services and Automatic Identification System are the other variants of the electronic navigation which the Directorate is adopting. Also in the field of visual aids, the availability of higher efficacy and lower wattage illuminant has made the use of solar energy feasible in the lighthouse application and is being practiced by the Directorate. 6.3 The approved Tenth Plan Outlay for the Directorate of Lighthouses and Lightships is Rs.185.00 Crore which consists of 12 spill over projects of Rs 103.75 crore (11 projects worth Rs 101.05 crore under the scheme “5051, 03 101 Construction and Development” and 1 project worth Rs 2.70 crore under the scheme of “5051, 03 103 Construction and Development of other Navigational Aids”) and 29 new projects of Rs 81.25 crore (28 projects worth Rs 76.25 crore under the scheme “5051, 03 101 Construction and Development” and 1 project worth Rs 5.00 crore under the scheme of “5051, 03 103 Construction and Development of other Navigational Aids”). The financial outlay and actual/anticipated expenditure since the Fifth Five Year Plan is indicated below: Rs. in crore
6.4 Year wise Expenditure during the 10th Plan (2002-2007) Rs. in crore
6.5 Year wise revenue expenditure during the 10th Plan are as follows: (Rs in crore)
6.6 The asset value of the Directorate as on 31.3.2006, after depreciation, is approximately Rs 164.00 crore. 7. Achievements during the Tenth Plan: 7.1 The approved Tenth Plan Outlay for the Directorate of Lighthouses and Lightships is Rs.185.00 Crore which consists of 12 spill over projects of Rs 103.75 crore (11 projects worth Rs 101.05 crore under the scheme “5051, 03 101 Construction and Development” and 1 project worth Rs 2.70 crore under the scheme of “5051, 03 103 Construction and Development of other Navigational Aids”) and 29 new projects of Rs 81.25 crore (28 projects worth Rs 76.25 crore under the scheme “5051, 03 101 Construction and Development” and 1 project worth Rs 5.00 crore under the scheme of “5051, 03 103 Construction and Development of other Navigational Aids”). Except for the project of Vessel Traffic Service for the Gulf of Kachchh for which work order could be placed only in March, 2005, the entire spill over projects have been completed. The new projects for the Lighthouses have been delayed due to inordinate delay in environment clearances. The Directorate has received environmental clearances in respect of 02 lighthouses and works at these locations are in progress. Environmental clearance for 2 more projects are likely to be received shortly. For 06 locations, environmental clearances are yet to be received. The progress of work also got affected due to wide scale Tsunami damages along the East Coast and Andaman and Nicobar Islands for which restoration became a priority. This also affected the progress of automation of lighthouses. 7.2 Projects completed during the 10th Plan: 7.2.1 Spill over projects:
7.2.2 New Projects: (i) Construction of staff quarters at Jamnagar (ii) Establishment of DGPS at Hazira, Pulicat and East Island under phase III (iii) Establishment of 18 Racons on lighthouses (iv) Marking of Deep Water Channel in Gulf of Khambhat
7.2.3 Restoration after Tsunami The December 2004 Tsunami damaged many LH installations on mainland and in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. On mainland six lighthouses and in AandN 15 lighthouses were damaged. The damages to the extent of Rs 11.10 crore have been assessed. Ministry of Shipping Road Transport and Highways accorded approval of Rs 10.50 crore for the restoration works. The operational availability of all but one lighthouse has been assured till now. The light beacon at Katchal West is to be restored for which the work is presently going on. Similarly the restoration work of DGPS Stations at Keating Point and Indira Point is in progress.
7.4 Project likely to be sanctioned (i) Establishment of Vessel Traffic Service for the Gulf of Khambhat. 7.5 Schemes executed on agency basis During the plan period, the Directorate has carried out following works on agency basis:
7.6 The total expenditure during the 10th Five Year Plan is anticipated to be Rs. 84.21 crore against the total outlay of Rs.185 crore. The major component of Rs 82 crore has been marked for the scheme of Vessel Traffic Service for the Gulf of Kachchh. The work order for the scheme could be placed only in March 2005 resulting in major non utilization of 10th Plan allocation. The scheme of Remote Control and Automation of Mumbai and Port Blair Lighthouses Districts for which an allocation of Rs 10 crore has been made also got its approval in August 2005. The scheme of Vessel Traffic Service for the Gulf of Khambhat for which an allocation of Rs 30 crore has been made in the plan is yet to be approved. 8. New Initiatives 8.1 Improvement of Local Lights 8.1.1 There are about 194 local lights in India being managed by various maritime states. Few of them are under the ambit of minor ports. Most of these lights are neither functional nor a serious attempt is made by the concerned authorities to make it functional. Though notified, they are not up to international expectation. A point to this effect was raised during 3rd MSDC meeting held in Vishakhapatnam in 2000. It was then decided that local maritime board would take assistance of DGLL in improving their lights. But there have been hardly any improvement. 8.1.2 The functional state of these lights becomes more important when the fishing vessels are dependent on it. As a state apparatus, neither the Ministry nor the DGLL can absolve themselves from the inconspicuous responsibility. Moreover an added emphasis is being made on Coastal Shipping, where a trend analysis shows that coastal traffic would increase from 116 million tonnes in 2002-03 to 220 million tonnes by the end of the 11th Plan period (2012). 8.1.3 The non functioning of these lights has been further debated at higher level and there has been a unanimous opinion that the DGLL should either takeover or improve these lights in phased manner. In view of the above it is planned to improve these lights either by taking it over (particularly minor ports lights) or with close coordination with the state authority. A token provision of Rs 1 crore is, therefore, proposed in the 11th Plan for this purpose.
8.2.3 The study group of parliamentary standing committee on transport and tourism in its 47th report recommended to take the step to beautify the lighthouses for attracting tourists. It has therefore been planned to develop few lighthouses as a heritage lighthouses for attracting tourists. A token provision of Rs.1 crore has been made for the project 9. Development Programme for the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-12) The requirement of capital outlay for the various projects planned during the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-12) has been assessed as Rs. 340.45 crore. The break-up of the proposed outlays is as under:
A Spill over schemes
All the above mentioned spill-over schemes except that at Sl .No (xi) are sanctioned schemes. Proposal for obtaining approval for the scheme at (xi) above is being finalized. B NEW SCHEMES
Total Outlay proposed–(A)+(B)= Rs 112.85 crore +227.60 crore = Rs 340.45 crore Yüklə 2,67 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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