Maritime Amrit Kaal Vision 2047
Also called: Maritime India Vision 2030, MIV 2030 · Topic: Infrastructure: Transport, Communications and Energy · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
Maritime Amrit Kaal Vision 2047 is India's long-term plan for ports, shipping, shipbuilding and waterways up to 2047. "Amrit Kaal" is the government's name for the years leading to 100 years of independence. The plan builds on the earlier Maritime India Vision 2030 and carries its goals forward to 2047. It matters because ships carry most of India's trade. The plan also aims for self-reliance, meaning India makes its own ships and containers and runs its own shipping services instead of depending on foreign ones.
Example
The vision expects India's container traffic to grow from 24 million TEUs in 2024 to 175 million TEUs by 2047. A TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) is the standard unit for container capacity. A shipbuilding roadmap under it, released in 2025, aims for 4 million GRT of shipbuilding capacity and a place among the world's top five shipbuilding nations by 2047. GRT (gross register tonnage) measures the inside volume of ships, not their weight.
Don't confuse with
- Maritime India Vision 2030: the earlier plan, which runs only to 2030. Amrit Kaal Vision 2047 is the longer plan that follows it. The two are not the same document.
- Sagarmala (2015): a programme that builds ports and develops the areas around them, carried out through specific projects. Amrit Kaal Vision 2047 is the overall long-term plan that such programmes serve.