The secientists you are referring to is the Tuticorin port trust that completed the studies in 2 days. Again the financial benefits are overblown. How many ships are now going around Sri Lanka or how many are not coming this way because they have to go around Sri Lanka. It is just common sense that nothing big will be achieved by this project. What about the fishermen that would be impacted by this project? This project is giving the athiests and Hindu bashers a tool to tout Hindus under the guise of development.