VPT to redo feasibility report for Dugarajapatnam port

The proposal to set up a major port at Duggarajapatnam appears to have hit a roadblock as both the central and state governments are yet to take up the mega project in the state. Union Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari said the government has instructed Visakhapatnam Port to prepare a revised feasibility report as the AP govern-¡ment had expressed its inability to meet the cost of land, rehabilitation and resettlement, as well as external infrastructure costs. The minister said the project cost is estimated at Rs 17,615 crore with the expenditure in the first phase estimated at Rs 6,091 crore. The navigation channel would be at least 300 metre wide and about 25 metre deep. It would start from the tip of Lakhpat at Kori Creek, run through the Rann of Kutch.