IMPLEMENT NATIONAL WATERWAYS RENAMED SAGARMALA BY VAJPAYEE

Hon’ble Thiru.Pon.Radhakrishnan M.P                                               22.05.2014

Tamilnadu State President BJP

New Delhi

Respected friend

Your victory had generated lot of hopes world  wide  amongst Tamils that vengeance of Sonia and stone like silence of Manmohan will not be the guiding principle in determining the foreign policy of India versus Srilanka. While congratulating you, I am for pursuing certain policies initiated by me, incorporated in National Agenda for Governance drafted by then NDA Convener Comrade George Fernandes and openly acknowledged through his letters.

As first step I had written the enclosed letter to the Prime Minister Designate Thiru.Narendra Modi. It is about Nehruvian-Indira Gandian-Rajivian failure/lethargy due to which by bureaucratic blunders in maps, India had lost 18036 square kilometres to China. I would urge a white paper on this blunder, which in fact I wrote to then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. [Letter enclosed ]

Secondly when I was in Tutucurin Port Trust appointed through recommendations of Comrade George Fernandes and posted by then Surface Transport Minister Nitish Kumar, my promise to get all 1856 cargo handling workers and 64 staff under stevedores’ association was fulfilled at the start of the new millennium by then Surface Transport Minister Rajnath Singh.  

Posters thanking  George Saab, Nitish, Rajnath Singh at the dawn of new millennium will retell the story. At that time I was shocked to see with such longer coast in west and east. Where in various states 138 minor and intermediary ports existed in paper

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It was only 12 major ports that were operable. I felt the throb to create like National Highways another authority called National Seaways. It was intended to connect all Indian ports with vessels to carry passengers and cargoes. Stress on road transport could be reduced. Comrade George Fernandes sent me to Planning Commission member Dr.S.B.Gupta , a socialist who is for creation of jobs for jobless and whose model was adopted by Mexico, and with him I discussed in detail the project.

Later Comrade George Fernandes took up this issue with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who announced this project in Tamilnadu, that too in Nagarkoil, the Dinamani report scanned is inserted here.

My humble request to you, through you to the Narendra Modi Government to revive the Sagar Mala project of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Yes, for National Seaways, the name Sagarmala was chosen by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

 I would urge you to personally take up with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Sagar Mala project and get  Atalji’s dream project fulfilled.

With Regards

Yours sincerely

N.Nandhivarman