Act 025 of 1992 : National Waterway (Kollam-Kottapuram Stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals) Act, 1992

Preamble

[Act 25 of 1992]

[18th August, 1992]

An Act to provide for the declaration of the Kollam-Kottapuram stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals to be a national waterway and also to provide for the regulation and development of the said stretch and the Canals for purposes of shipping and navigation on the said waterway and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto

Be it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

Section 1. Short title and commencement

1. Short title and commencement.-(1) This Act may be called the National Waterway (Kollam-Kottapuram Stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals) Act, 1992.

(2) It shall come into force on such date¹ as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

1 1-2-1993 vide Notification No. S.O. 806(E) dated 30-10-1993, Gazette of India, Extraordinary, 1992, Part II, Section 3(ii).

Section 2. Declaration of Kollam-Kottapuram stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals to be a national waterway

2. Declaration of Kollam-Kottapuram stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals to be a national waterway.-The Kollam-Kottapuram stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals, the limits of which are specified in the Schedule, is hereby declared to be a national waterway.

Section 3. Declaration as to expediency of control by the Union of Kollam-Kottapuram stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals for certain purposes

3. Declaration as to expediency of control by the Union of Kollam-Kottapuram stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals for certain purposes.-It is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that the Union should take under its control the regulation and development of Kollam-Kottapuram stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals for purposes of shipping and navigation on the national waterway to the extent provided in the Inland Waterways Authority of India Act, 1985 (82 of 1985).

Schedule

Schedule

(See Section 2)

Limits of the National Waterway (Kollam-Kottapuram stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals)

The northern limit of the West Coast Canal shall be a line drawn across the river Periyar parallel to Kottapuram road bridge (NH-17) connecting Maliankara and Valiapanikan Thuruthu at a distance of 1.0 kilometre upstream, and the southern limit shall be a line drawn across the Ashtamudi Kayal at a distance of 100 meters south of Kollam jetty.

The Champakara Canal starting from the confluence with the West Coast Canal and ending at the railway bridge (railway siding for Cochin Oil Refinery) near Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Limited, boat basin.

The Udyogmandal Canal starting from the confluence) with West Coast Canal and ending at the Padalam road bridge (Eloor-Edayar).