After having studied the impact of the Sethusamudram project, the environmental damage it is likely to cause and the financial unviability, I feel the project should have been thrown away. One should while considering the impact of this project, not forget that we are unnecessarily displeasing a friendly neighbour(Sri lanka) but are making ourselves vulnerable to terrorist attacks on the vessels by LTTE(which controls most of Jaffna which is close to the channel under construction).Though we are not at loggerheads with each other now, we never know. If we displease them in any manner, mindless brutals that they are, they can blow over the tankers or ships passing through the channel causing immense ecological disasters.Then the marine life, the coral reefs , the ecological imbalances caused due to ocean currents and what not. To top it all, the government in the process of digging this channel want to destroy Ram sethu or Adam%u2019s bridge, which is mythologically thought to have been built by Lord Rama.There are reports that destruction of the Ram sethu might even cause damage to the famous Rameshwaram temple located on the Rameshwaram island. And when VHP and other hindu outfits express their concern and stage protests, the mindless government files an affidavit in the supreme court saying that Lord Ram and Ramayana are all fictitious .Is this not amounting to blasphemy and amounting to playing with the religious sentiments of hindus.May be this is not our government. It is pro
