Petuaghat Fishing Harbour is a fishing harbour established near the mouth of the
Rasulpur River
The Rasulpur River (also spelt Rasalpur) is a tributary of the Hooghly River. The Rasulpur flows through Paschim Medinipur and Purba Medinipur districts. It flows as Bagda River until Kalinagar and then flows as Rasulpur River. Its tributaries ...
at Petuaaghat in
Purba Medinipur district
Purba Medinipur (English: ''East Medinipur'', alternative spelling ''Midnapore'') district is an administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the southernmost district of Medinipur division – one of the five administrative d ...
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The port originated in 2010 in the then West Bengal's then-fashioned
M. K. Narayanan. The port has been developed in 11.8 hectares of land. The port is India's seventh largest fishing port.
The port has 400 deep sea fishing trawlers and 200 traditional trawlers. There is also one ice mill, an ice house, a fake fabric center, and a trailer oil sales center at the port. A trailer repair center has also been proposed to be built.
Construction
Construction of the harbour began during the
Left Front regime in 2005. The project was announced on 1 March 2005 by the fisheries minister
Kiranmoy Nanda with a budget of 32 cores, half of which was to be given by the centre and rest by the state. This was the sixth fishing port in the state established, the others being two in Shankarpur, and one each in Kakdwip, Frazergunj and Diamond Harbour. The construction was completed in 2010.
The cost of construction of the port is estimated to be 200 crore. In the first phase, the port costing 60 crore was spent. The second step has started. This step will build a dry dock at the port.
See also
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Kakdwip Fishing Port
Kakdwip fishing port is located at Kakdwip in South Twenty-four Parganas in the coastal district of West Bengal, India. It is an important full-fledged fishing port. The port was developed in the left-front period. The port serves the coastal area ...
References
External links
Petuaghat in Wikimapia
Ports and harbours of West Bengal
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