of North and South Buckingham Canal, Commamur canal, and Kaluvelly Tank at an estimated cost of . In the Tenth Five-Year Plan, Planning Commission has increased the budgetary provision for the development of inland water transport infrastructure to , against in the Ninth Five-Year Plan. For the year 2009–2010, the government has released the following funds through Ministry of Shipping for development of IWT. as a grant to IWAI for development and maintenance of National Waterways (NW 1,2,3,4 & 5).And also for undertaking projects related to IWT promotion, training, IT activities etc. has been released for Technical Studies and R&D activities. has been released for Inland Vessel Building Subsidy Scheme. has been released for Central Sector Schemes for IWT Development in North Eastern Region. Delay in the project Common factors attributable for delay in development of IWT are lack of infrastructure, absence of fixed scheduled services, poor navigational aids, lack of connectivity, longer river distances, multiple handling, and limited flow of private investments. The Eleventh Five-Year Plan envisaged development of six national inland waterways. Although the government demarcated five such National Waterways, the shipping ministry is unable to start the work on developing two of them (NW-4 & NW-5), as Planning Commission has not approved the development plans until now. Ministry of Shipping awaits the sum of that it needs to carry out the development works. As a result of the delay in getting the Planning Commission approval and the funds, the ministry has suspended the plans for developing the sixth national inland waterway. See also National Waterway 2 (India) National Waterway 3 (India) Inland Waterways Authority of India Inland waterways of India The Inland Vessels (Amendment) Act, 2007 References Waterways in India Transport in Andhra Pradesh Transport in Puducherry Transport in Tamil Nadu Transport in Kakinada