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Scrap Sethu project if no alternative route is acceptable, says Swamy
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI: Terming the Sethusamudram Project an “economic loss” and “environmental disaster,” Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Thursday said it should be scrapped if no alternative route was acceptable.
Addressing reporters here on Thursday, he said the project was also a “national security risk.” The National Remote Sensing Agency had published a book of satellite photographs claiming that archaeological studies showed that the Sethu may be “manmade”.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests, in a letter to the Ministry of Surface Transport in April 1999, had said that from the environmental angle, the project should not be taken up at all. The opinion was based on an analysis of the National Environment Engineering Research Institute report of 1998. However, the Ministry reversed its opinion in 2005. But no explanation was given for this.
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