People outside TN, that is 95% of Indians dont know what happens in TamilNadu. The present State Government has a well known policy to neglect the districts, espically the Southern districts. All investment and development happens only in Chennai and around it. Southern TN people always reject the DMK in elections. So in order to fool them, the Sethu project is promoted - it is promoted as a scheme to make Tuticorin the next singapore.
Better that people outside TN realise it first. A small canal cannot do any big change, because Indian Shipping industry is a small kid and insignificantly small in world.
What we need is not Sethu Canal, but a canal to link all Indian Rivers
RE:LOCAL TAMILNADU POLITICS IS WHAT DRIVES SETHU PROJECT...
by MGR Fan on Sep 14, 2007 11:42 PM Permalink
A bit of Political History. Southern TN was always strongly against DMK (historically) in past. Even in 1967 and 1971, Southern Districts used to support Congress. By 1977, they moved to AIADMK and MGR. Only in 1996, DMK managed to win support, and they consolidated it in 2004 Lok Sabha elections. That was when this Sethu Scheme was designed, and propaganda went that if Sethu Canal comes, Tuticorin and Southern Districts will become next Singapore/Malaysia.
Problem is that despite high education , literacy and intelligence, some Tamils fall easy prey to political scamsters and believe in some fantasies (but think that they are rationalists) . Whether Sethu Canal is right or wrong is one thing. But the real thing is Sethu Canal will not help the southern districts in any significant way.
