Tripura Current Affairs - July 2020
Shipping Minister Mansukh Mandaviya virtually flagged off 1st container ship,‘MV Shejyoti’ from Kolkata Port to Agartala via Chattogram port (Bangladesh)
On July 16, 2020, Union Minister of State for Shipping (I/C) Mansukh Mandaviya flagged off the first trial container ship,‘MV Shejyoti’ from Kolkata (West Bengal) to Agartala (Tripura) through Chattogram Port of Bangladesh in a virtual ceremony. This will not only provide an alternative and shorter route for India to connect it’s North East Region (NER) through Bangladesh but will also further boost India-Bangladesh maritime relations.
• This has been done under the Agreement on use of Chattogram and Mongla Ports for movement of India’s transit cargo through Bangladesh, the standard operating procedure (SOP) for which was signed and exchanged between both nations during the Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visit to India in October 2019. This SOP followed the signing of MoU on June 6, 2015, and an Agreement on October 25, 2018.
• After SOP, the landlocked states of India viz. Assam, Meghalaya, and Tripura got access to 8 open sea routes from Chattogram and Mongla ports via Indian routes.
Consignment of trial movement:
The consignment of the trial movement included two TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units) carrying TMT (Thermo Mechanical Treatment) steel bars destined for West Tripura district and two TEUs carrying pulses destined for Karimganj, Assam. After reaching Chattogram, the consignment will move to Agartala on Bangladeshi trucks.
Benefits of this route:
Benefit to India: It will reduce transportation time and cost for India. Currently, cargo used to reach the North East by rail and road. Now, cargo will go there by inland waterways and sea route from any part of the country,
Benefit to Bangladesh: Job creation, investment in the logistical sector, enhanced business services and revenue generation are advantages that will accrue to Bangladesh.
Indo-Bangla cooperation in shipping and inland water trade
-Under the Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade, in addition to the six existing Ports of Call, five more in each country have been added recently.
-Dredging of inland waterway routes is ongoing under a MoU signed by the two countries on development of a fairway in selected stretches of Bangladesh waterways.
About Bangladesh:
Capital– Dhaka
Currency– Bangladeshi taka
President– Mohammad Abdul Hamid
Capitals of NE states to be connected through rail network by 2023
On July 17, 2020, during a virtual interaction with the media, Railway Board Chairman Vinod Kumar Yadav has announced the connectivity of all capitals of North-Eastern (NE) states through rail network by 2023. Railways is already implementing a project in this regard.
• The capitals of Assam, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh are already connected. The work to connect capitals of Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Meghalaya is in progress.
• In Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Meghalaya, the capital connectivity work is in progress. Manipur will be connected in March 2022, Mizoram in March 2023, Nagaland in March 2023, Meghalaya in March 2022 and Sikkim in December 2022.
Apart from above, attempts to connect every part of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) to the railway are also underway, and the 111 km Katra-Banihal rail link project is likely to be completed by December 2022.
About Railway Board:
Headquarter– New Delhi
Parent organization– Ministry of Railways
A Team of Wildlife researchers rediscover ‘Ypthima watsoni’ butterfly after 61 years in Tripura
A team of wildlife researchers has rediscovered ‘Ypthima watsoni’ butterfly(commonly known as ‘Looped three- ring’) after 61 years near a village called Phuldungsei in Jampui Hills under the North Tripura district. The research paper regarding this discovery was published in the Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies.
Ypthima Watsoni
i.Ypthima watsoni, 1893 belongs to the subfamily Styrene and family Nymphalidae of insect order Lepidoptera ii.The species was 1st reported and described byZoologist Frederic Moore in the year 1893-1896 from two different places in Myanmar. It was last seen in Manipur in 1958.
Research Team
The research was done by Suman Bhowmik, Head of the department of Lepidoptera conservation & research division of Wild Tripura Foundation, Agartala, Tripura with Sandip Malakar and Atanu Bora
Wild Tripura Foundation– The Wild Tripura Foundation is a Government registered Trust. It supports and helps to study Lepidoptera diversity of Tripura.
Note– The Jampui Hills harbours some of the rarest fauna that are hard to find anywhere else in the Indian Subcontinent.
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