‘SAGAR SAMRIDDHI- Online Dredging Monitoring System’ Aimed at Accelerating ‘Waste to Wealth’ Campaign: Sarbananda Sonowal

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 9th June. Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways (MoPSW) Sarbananda Sonowal launched ‘SAGAR SAMRIDDHI’ – the online dredging monitoring system – in order to accelerate the ‘Waste to Wealth’ initiative of the Ministry here today.

Secretary of MoPSW Sudhansh Pant along with other senior officials of the Ministry, Major Ports and Organisations also attended this programme.

This system has been developed by National Technology Centre for Ports, Waterways and Coasts (NTCPWC) the technological arm of MoPSW.

The new technology brings in marked improvement against the old system of Draft & Loading Monitor (DLM) system.

The system will bring in synergy among multiple input reports like daily dredging report, the pre and post dredging survey data before processing and producing real time dredging report.

The ‘Sagar Samriddhi’ monitoring system will also allow Daily and monthly progress Visualisation, Dredger performance and downtime monitoring, easy location track data with snapshot of loading, unloading and idle time.

This system strengthens the Atmanirbhar Bharat and Make in India vision of PM Modi.

Speaking on the occasion Shri Sonowal said, “Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi gave us the mantra of ZERO DEFECT and ZERO EFFECT and MoPSW is following his vision. In the era of advanced technology, it is essential to apply technology for monitoring the system so that human error can be minimised. From now onwards the Major Ports would be able to utilise the Online Dredging Monitoring System and bring about significant change in project implementation and bring down cost of dredging through use of the dredged materials. This will help in environment sustainability and will bring down the operational costs of the ports, bringing in more transparency and efficiency’.”

“The monitoring system is expected to enable better productivity, better contract management and also effective reuse of dredged material with waste to wealth concept”, said Sudhansh Pant, Secretary, MoPSW.