Scrap Sethusamudram

Instead of trying to ride roughshod with the disastrous Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project, and in the process destroy the ancient Ram Setu, the Union Government will do well to scrap the project once and for all. The Government had some time ago petitioned the Supreme Court to revive the project that the latter had stayed in 2007. But now, since an expert committee constituted to look into the viability of the Sethusamudram project has made clear that the scheme is neither economically feasible nor ecologically sustainable, the Government has no leg to stand on.

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