In 2005, the Government of India approved Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project. But in 2018, government realized that cutting across the Ram Setu may cause “Socio-economic disadvantages”.
Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project is a proposed project to create a shipping route in the shallow straits between India and Sri Lanka. This would provide a continuously navigable sea route around the Indian Peninsula. The project was conceived in 1860 by Alfred Dundas Taylor
The channel would be dredged in the Sethusamudram Sea between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, passing through the limestone shoals of Adam’s Bridge (also known as Rama’s Bridge, Ram Sethu and Ramar ....
