New Delhi:
The Supreme Court now wants the Centre to clarify its position on the Sethusamudram project within four weeks.
The ambitious project has been on hold after the Pachouri Committee was formed to look into the environmental costs of the project.
Today the apex court demanded to know why 15 months after the appointment of the committee, nothing had happened yet. The court will hear the case again on the December 11.
The Supreme Court was hearing a fresh application filed by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy for a direction to the Centre to scrap the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project citing the adverse report submitted by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO).
The SC told centre, "At some stage or other you will have to say something. Disclose your stand. What is the report? It may be in your favour or in their favour. We have to take a decision."
The Centre informed the court that the NIO report was inconclusive and it needed more data and that the Pachouri Committee had met four times.
In July last year, the court reserved verdict on the petitions filed by Dr. Swamy and others, and said the matter would be taken up after the R.K. Pachauri Committee submitted its report on an alternative alignment for the project, without cutting across Adam's Bridge or Ramar Sethu.
The ambitious project has been on hold after the Pachouri Committee was formed to look into the environmental costs of the project.
Today the apex court demanded to know why 15 months after the appointment of the committee, nothing had happened yet. The court will hear the case again on the December 11.
The Supreme Court was hearing a fresh application filed by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy for a direction to the Centre to scrap the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project citing the adverse report submitted by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO).
The SC told centre, "At some stage or other you will have to say something. Disclose your stand. What is the report? It may be in your favour or in their favour. We have to take a decision."
The Centre informed the court that the NIO report was inconclusive and it needed more data and that the Pachouri Committee had met four times.
In July last year, the court reserved verdict on the petitions filed by Dr. Swamy and others, and said the matter would be taken up after the R.K. Pachauri Committee submitted its report on an alternative alignment for the project, without cutting across Adam's Bridge or Ramar Sethu.
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