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14.2.2 Institutions 14.2.2.1 The Department of Transport is the nodal department in the Government of Kerala for transport related activities. The following line departments and organisations fall under this department. A point to note is that there is seemingly little coordination between the departments. The departments/organisations are: Motor Vehicles Department: Managing Motor Vehicles like issuing licenses, registrations etc. State Water Transport Department: Providing Water transport services Kerala State Road Transport Corporation: Providing Bus Transport Kerala Transport Development Finance Corporation Railways (Land Acquisition): Land Acquisition for setting up of Railway Coach Factory, Palakkad Airport Authority of India (Land Acquisition): Land Acquisition for Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram, and Calicut Airports Cochin Metro Rail Project (Land Acquisition): Acquiring Land 14.2.2.2 Each mode of transport has separate sets of institutions for construction of the infrastructure. Roads in Kerala consist of three broad categories – National Highways (NHs), State Highways (SHs) and Major District Roads (MDRs) and Village Roads. Appendix A.14.1 contains all the definitions related to roads. “The Central Government is responsible for the development and maintenance of the NHs. The development and maintenance works of the NHs are being implemented on an agency basis. The State Governments (State PWDs), Border Roads Organisation (BRO) and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) implement the development and maintenance works on NHs” 2 3 . The SHs and MDRs are managed by the Public Works Department (PWD) of Kerala. There are several wings under the PWD. They are: The Kerala Road Fund Board is a professional body that looks after the fund management affairs of the Kerala State Public Works Department. It primarily oversees and manages non-budgetary funds and deploys such funds to implement innovative roads and other related infrastructure. The Kerala Road Fund Board aims to bring in greater private sector participation into developmental activities. 2 Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India. 2012. Basic Roads Statistics 2008−09, 2009−10 and 2010−11. New Delhi. August 6. 3 The National Highways Authority of India was constituted by an act of Parliament, the National Highways Authority of India Act, 1988. It is responsible for the development, maintenance and management of National Highways entrusted to it and for matters connected or incidental thereto. The Authority was operationalised in Feb, 1995. http://www.nhai.org/. 543
The Kerala Highway Research Institute is a research institute of the PWD connected with improving the quality of the roads. The Roads and Bridges Development Corporation (RBDCK) is a corporation established and fully owned by the Government of Kerala and has been incorporated as a limited company under the Companies Act 1956 on 23rd September 1999. RBDCK mainly deals with the properties and assets comprising movables and immovables including land, road projects, railway overbridge projects, toll collection rights and works under construction. RBDCK is a company under the Public Works Department of the Government of Kerala. The Kerala State Transport Project is a programme to modernise the state highways with external aid from the World Bank. 14.2.2.3 The village roads come under the local bodies with generous funding coming in from the Centre through schemes like the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) and Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY). There are two other types of roads-urban roads which are managed by the urban local bodies and project roads which are managed by the respective authorities like railway roads. 14.2.2.4 Railways come under the Ministry of Railways which is managed at the Centre. The major port, Kochi is also managed by the Centre. The construction of minor ports and airports are a state subject. The Department of Ports manages the minor ports. The Harbour Engineering Department is a separate specialised department as a service department for Fisheries and Ports. Last but not the least is the Kerala Coastal Shipping and Inland Navigation Corporation which overlooks shipping of both passengers and freight, does Research and Development (R&D) in the sector and is involved in the construction of boats, amongst other things. 14.2.2.5 The National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (NATPAC) is a R&D institution under the Department of Science, Technology and Environment, Government of Kerala. It undertakes research and consultancy works in the fields of traffic engineering and transportation planning, highway engineering, public transport system, alternate options for transport system, transport energy, inland water transport and tourism planning and rural roads. The activities of NATPAC range from surveying to preparation of techno-economic studies, feasibility analysis, detailed project reports for infrastructure development projects involving multi-modal system of transportation covering road, rail, water, ports/harbours and airports. 544
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