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Sethusamudram Shipping Channel Project
Minister Nitin Gadkari inspecting the Sethusamudram project site by Hovercraft
Company type
Government of India
Industry
Canal Project
Founded
2005
Headquarters
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Area served
Tamil Nadu, India
Key people
Shri A. Subbiah, IAS chairman, Tuticorin Port Trust & Chairman and managing director, Sethusamudram Corporation Limited
Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project (lit.'Setu Ocean Shipping Canal Project') is a proposed project to create a shipping route in the shallow straits between India and Sri Lanka. This would provide a continuously navigable sea route around the Indian Peninsula. The channel would be dredged in the Sethusamudram sea between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, passing through the limestone shoals of Rama Sethu.
The project involves digging a 44.9-nautical-mile (51.7 mi; 83.2 km) long deepwater channel linking the shallow Palk Strait with the Gulf of Mannar. Conceived in 1860 by Alfred Dundas Taylor, it received approval of the Indian government in 2005.[1]
The proposed route through the shoals of Ram Setu is opposed by some groups on religious, environmental and economical grounds. Five alternative routes were considered that avoid damage to the shoals.[2][3] The most recent plan is to dig the channel roughly in the middle of the straits to provide the shortest course and the course requiring least maintenance. This plan avoids the demolition of Ram Setu.[4]
^Brunn, Stanley D. (19 March 2011). Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 298–299. ISBN 978-90-481-9920-4. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
^http://www.ivarta.com/columns/images/image_OL_070508_3.jpg 5 Alternative alignments without damaging Ramar bridge
^"Image: lankan.jpg, (400 × 354 px)". nation.lk. 21 April 2007. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
^"No question of demolishing Ram Sethu: Nitin Gadkari". The Times of India. Press Trust of India. 15 September 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
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