Budget 2021: FM announces 7 port projects worth more than Rs 2,000 crore via PPP mode

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday announced seven port projects worth more than Rs 2,000 crore investment.

These projects would be undertaken through public private partnership (PPP) mode, Sitharaman said in her

Budget 2021

speech.
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The

finance minister

said that she proposed "seven port projects worth more than Rs 2,000 crore via public private partnership mode".

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India has 12 major ports under the control of the central government -- Deendayal (erstwhile Kandla), Mumbai, JNPT, Mormugao, New Mangalore, Cochin, Chennai, Kamarajar (earlier Ennore), VO Chidambarnar, Visakhapatnam, Paradip and Kolkata (including Haldia)