{"id":127431,"date":"2026-10-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=127431"},"modified":"2026-10-04T16:05:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:35:56","slug":"jawahar-dweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/jawahar-dweep\/","title":{"rendered":"Jawahar Dweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Jawahar Dweep Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Jawahar Dweep Marine Oil Terminal has been declared plastic-free by the Mumbai Port Authority , becoming the first in India to eliminate single-use plastics.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Jawahar Dweep<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jawahar Dweep, or the <\/span><b>Butcher Island,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an <\/span><b>island off the coast of Mumbai<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Indian state of Maharashtra.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located 8.25 kilometers from the Gateway of India.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>restricted area, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and most of the island is covered with <\/span><b>thick vegetation.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A hillock rises from the center of the Butcher Island.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of <\/span><b>Mumbai Port\u2019s key marine oil terminals <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>handles crude oil and petroleum <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">products. The terminal currently has five jetties.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The terminal is also supported by automated systems for liquid bulk handling.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The crude oil is stored in oil containers on the island. From there they are piped to Wadala, in Mumbai, where they are refined.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>first oil terminal in India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><b>eliminate single-use plastics. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.in\/news\/maritime\/2026\/10\/02\/mumbai-port-s-gandhi-jayanti-milestone-jawahar-dweep-becomes-india-s-first-plastic-free-oil-terminal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>WEEK<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jawahar Dweep is an island off the coast of Mumbai in the Indian state of Maharashtra.  Read more about Jawahar Dweep, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":127487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10663,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-127431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-jawahar-dweep","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127488,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127431\/revisions\/127488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}