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15 Mar, 14 tweets, 6 min read
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Subj: Another #WhatsApp #propaganda Lie from the #Bhakt brigade
Picked this up on a family group WhatsApp message. Apparently, the Prime Minister has now matriculated to being a Roll-On-Roll-Off ferry operator!
So what's the truth?
Read On.
Pic 1 is the map of the South Gujarat coastline, Pic to is a zoomed in map of the Gulf of Khambhat. Both Bharuch Road and Bhavnagar are somewhat inland, so the Ferry actually runs between Ghogha and Dahej.
This ferry service was inaugurated by PM Modi in October 2017, according to this report in thebetterindia.com/118970/gujarat… See pic.
It was probably this same service that Anand Mahindra tweeted about in Nov 2018.
On 8 Oct 2020 a fact checking website published this FakeNews warning on @youtube suggesting that a social media post claiming to show a ferry traversing between Bharuch and Daheja was in fact a fake video. See the full video here:
On 3 Dec 2019 an Indian Express news item reported that one of the ships used in this service, the one that the PM sailed on at the inauguration, a vessel called Island jade was to be sold off.
You can catch the full story here. Apparently, the operator Indigo Seaways runs two ships, Island Jade and Voyage Symphony. It's not a commercially viable service and facing mounting losses, the company put up Island jade for sale.
indianexpress.com/article/india/…
Why is it losing money? I dont know, may be passengers are not willing to pay enough, but equally there is a problem wth silting up of the waterway in Dahej due to heavy inflows from the Sardar Sarovar Dam making it too shallow (1 meter depth) to operate a ship this size.
The article also suggests that the ship Island Jade was purchased in 2017 from Singapore for the launch of the much-advertised service in 2017 just ahead of the Gujarat Elections. On 6 Feb 2020, the waterway was so shallow that the ship ran aground. See report from Times of India
The same Times of India Article also gave a timeline of the Ro-Ro ferry project. So 6 years later and 615 crores poorer, and after a nice pre-election inauguration what we had was a ship sitting on the floor of a silted up canal..
The irony of course is that the ship ran aground because of silting of the waterway caused by a Dam that was the subject of long determined and persistent protest. Now the second ship, the Voyage Symphony, guess where it was bought from? Why, China of course, for 110 crores.
So back to the original #WhatsApp message that piqued my interest in the story. Why bring it up again now? Because
it's
election
time!!
One response to that message on WhatsApp was, as expected, "And those Congi dumbos couldn't do this in 70 years!"
maybe he was right after all. It does take some genius to run a ship aground in a waterway that was never properly engineered for a Roll-on-Roll-off (Ro-Ro) ferry service.
There is more news and detail on this ferry service here. At the moment it is a once a day service at the following rates:

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