Cabinet nod to new ports in AP, Bengal

Giving a push to infrastructure development, the government  on Thursday approved a proposal to set up two major ports in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh at an investment of about Rs 15,820 crore.  ‘The proposal for setting up two major ports in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh has been cleared,’ information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari told reporters after a meeting of the cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA). The new port in West Bengal, which will have a capacity of 54 million tonnes per annum (MTPA), requires an investment of around Rs 7,820 crore. The new Andhra Pradesh port, whose projected capacity is around 50 MTPA costing Rs 8,000 crore.