The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal announced major initiatives aimed at enabling the waterways potential of Nagaland during the Stakeholder’s Conference held in Dimapur, Nagaland.
He announced the development of Tizu Zunki (National Waterways 101) in Nagaland.
In Nagaland, the NW 101 flows from Longmatra (Nagaland) towards Avangkhu where the feasibility study of IWT will be conducted by the IWAI.
Tizu river
Tizu river in Nagaland further flows into Chindown river (Third largest Tributary of river Irrawaddy river), also known as Ningthi river in Myanmar, at Htamanthi in Myanmar.
Chindown River further enters into Irrawaddy River – the largest river of Myanmar. River Irrawaddy further drains into Andaman Sea.
Zungki River
Zungki River is the biggest tributary of (flows into) Tizu river.
Zunki river originates from the north-eastern part of Changdong forest in the south of Teku (Nagaland) and flows in south towards Noklak, Shamator and Kiphire and finally joins Tizu below Kiphire.
