ACT NO. 25 OF 1992

An Act to provide for the declaration of the Kollam-Kottapuram stretch of West Coast Canal and

Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals to be a national waterway and also to provide for the

regulation and development of the said stretch and the Canals for purposes of shipping and navigation

of the said waterway and for matters connected therewith of incidental thereto.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:––

Short title and commencement.––(1) This Act may be called the National Waterway (KollamKottapuram

Stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals) Act, 1992.

(2) It shall come into force on such date1

as the Central Government may, by notification in the

Official Gazette, appoint.

Udyogmandal Canals to be a national waterway.––The Kollam-Kottapuram stretch of West Coast

Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals, the limits of which are specified in the Schedule, is

hereby declared to be a notional waterway.

Declaration as to expediency of control by the Union of Kollam-Kottapuram stretch of West

Coast Canal and Champakara and Udyogmandal Canals for certain purposes.––It is hereby

declared that it is expedient in the public interest that the Union should take under its control the

regulation and development of Kollam-Kottampuram stretch of West Coast Canal and Champakara and

Udyogmandal Canals for purposes of shipping and navigation on the national waterway to the extent

provided in the Inland Waterways Authority of India Act, 1985 (82 of 1985).

THE SCHEDULE

(See section 2)

LIMITS OF THE NATIONAL WATERWAY (KOLLAM-KOTTAPURAM STRETCH OF WEST COAST CANAL AND

CHAMPAKARA AND UDYOGMANDAL CANALS)

The northern limit of the West Coast Canal shall be a line drawn across the river Periyar parallel to

Kottapuram road bridge (NH-17) connecting Maliankara and Valiapanikan Thuruthu at a distance of

1.0 kilometre upstream, and the southern limit shall be a line drawn across the Ashtamudi Kayal at a

distance of 100 meters south of Kollam jetty.

The Champakara Canal starting from the confluence with the West Coast Canal and ending at the

railway bridge (railway siding for Cochin Oil Refinery) near Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore

Limited, boat basin.

The Udyogmandal Canal starting from the confluence with West Coast Canal and ending at the

Padalam road bridge (Eloor-Edayar).

1st February, 1993 vide notification No. S.O.806 (E), dated 30th October, 1993, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,

sec. 3(ii).