Sethusamudram project: SC grants time to TN to take stand
The court had earlier asked the Centre to apprise it of its stand on the controversial project following the Pachauri Committee report. New Delhi: The Supreme Court today granted two weeks’ time to Tamil Nadu government to apprise it of its stand on the controversial Sethusamundram project after the Centre had said it intended to pursue its implementation. During the hearing, Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy, one of the petitioners, said now the court should decide the issue as the Centre had rejected the RK Pachauri Committee report that had found the entire Sethusamudram project unviable on two fronts – economically as ecologically. The Centre, in its affidavit, had said it intended to go ahead with the Rs 25,000 crore Sethusamudram shipping channel project on the ground that it has economic, navigational and strategic advantages and moreover an expenditure of Rs 829.32 crore has already been incurred on it as on 30 June, 2012.
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