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Describe the salient features of Sagar Mala Project and highlight its role in port-led development of coastal regions in India.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Transport, Communication and Trade

Launched in 2015 to convert a 7,516.6 km coastline and some 14,500 km of navigable waterway into one logistics system, on the premise that 95 per cent of Indian trade by volume and 70 per cent by value moves by sea through 12 major and about 200 non-major ports.

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