Kolkata: With the Centre ignoring the Pachauri Committee report advising against implementation of the controversial Sethusamundram project, eminent scientist RK Pachauri has said that he stands by the report and warned of serious ecological ramifications.
"We stand by what we said in our report that the project will not be economically and ecologically viable," Pachauri, chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said.
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of IIM Calcutta convocation here on Saturday night, he said the committee headed by him came to the aforesaid conclusion after a comprehensive reading of all factors like ocean current and wind patterns.
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New Delhi: The government on Monday told the Supreme Court that a high-level committee in its report has suggested that an alternative alignment other than the mythological Ram Sethu for the Sethusamudram project was not economically or ecologically feasible. However, Solicitor General Rohinton Nariman submitted before a bench comprising justices HL Dattu and CK Prasad that the Union Cabinet was yet to consider and take a decision on the report...
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New Delhi: Ram Sethu, also known as Adam's Bridge, is a continuous stretch of limestone shoals that runs from Pamban Island near Rameshwaram in South India to Mannar Island off the northern coast of Sri Lanka. Encyclopaedia Britannica says that geological evidence suggests that in the Ice Age, the stretch used to be a land connection between India and Sri Lanka. There are different geological theories behind the origin of...
02:16 PM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Government on Thursday declined to take a stand on the Ram Sethu issue in the Supreme Court. The Centre refused to indicate whether the Ram Sethu should be declared a national monument or not. The court will now hear the matter in the third week of August. The Centre's stand is surprising since the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance had been opposing the proposal to declare the...
11:22 AM, Apr 19, 2012
Chennai: Union ministers and MPs belonging to the DMK on Thursday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to implement the Sethusamudram project at the earliest. They submitted a memorandum a day after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa wrote to Singh asking him to declare Ram Sethu, also known as Adam's Bridge, a national monument. Ram Sethu will be endangered by the Sethusamudram project, which is...
04:49 AM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre was on Thursday granted more time by the Supreme Court to decide whether the mythological Ram Sethu could be declared a national monument. Appearing before a bench headed by Justice HL Dattu, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Haren Raval submitted that consultation was needed on the issue with the competent authority and sought more time to file an affidavit on it. "Take a decision whether or not...
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Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking the Centre to clarify in court that Ram Sethu will be declared a national monument. This action would mean that Ram Sethu will be protected and the government will have to seek a new alignment for the Sethu Samudram Shipping Channel as there is a controversy over the existing one. The project would also considerably...
06:52 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the government to supply a copy of the Pachauri Committee report on alternative shipping channel in the Ram Sethu case to petitioner Subramanian Swamy. The apex court also directed the government to inform the court on giving national monument status to Ram Sethu by March 29. The government, however, said that the decision on whether to give Ram Sethu a national monument...
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court is likely to consider the government's appeal for more time to present its stance in the Ram Sethu case on Tuesday. The apex court, on January 5, had directed the Centre to place before it the PM-appointed expert panel report on the feasibility of building an alternative shipping channel through Dhanuskodi instead of Ram Sethu around the country's southern tip. The project was flagged off...
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09:32 AM, Jan 16, 2008
Senior party leader Karan Singh said this in an article in
Congress Sandesh. ...
12:58 AM, Sep 29, 2007
The party has also asked to speed up the Sethusamudram project. ...
08:31 AM, Sep 25, 2007
