Match the pair correctly:  

National Waterways		Stretch
(a)	NW-1	1.	Kakinada-Puducherry
(b)	Nw-2	2.	Kottapuram- Kallam
(c)	NW-3	3.	Allahabad - Haldia
(d)	NW-5	4.	Sadiya- Dhubri
		5.	Talchar-Dhamra

The correct answer is a-3, b-4, c-2, d–5.

Key Points

• National Waterway 1 (NW-1) or the Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hooghly river system is located in India and runs across the Ganges from Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh to Haldia in West Bengal via Patna and Bhagalpur in Bihar.
  • The Ganga - Bhagirathi - Hooghly river system between Haldia (Sagar) and Allahabad (1620 km) was declared as National Waterway-1 (NW-1) in 1986.
  • Since then IWAI is carrying out various developmental works on the waterway for improvement of its navigability and also development and maintenance of other infrastructures such as navigation aids and terminal facilities as laid down in the IWAI Act, 1985 (82 of 1985).

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