The Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) has made a fresh proposal to the Union Ministry of Defence offering alternative land at Roychowk further up the Hooghly River, after the ministry refused to part with land required for the proposed Diamond Harbour container terminal project.

The KoPT requires 125 acre from various sources such as Defence department (43 acre), private landowners (40 acre), Directorate-General of Lighthouse and Lightships (24 acre), West Bengal Government (15 acre) and the Railways (three acre).

The Defence Ministry had refused to part with 43 acre saying that the land will be used by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE).

The land being on the waterfront is critically important for the proposed container terminal project. Therefore, KoPT has offered the ship-builder an alternative site (43 acre) at Roychowk. At Roychowk, the KoPT has about 60 acre of which 43 acres can be made available to GRSE.

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