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On the project

It is strange that those who now oppose the Sethusamudram project on religious grounds have gained more media attention than those who have opposed it from the outset on grounds of human displacement, ecology and economic viability.

The displacement of thousands of fisherfolk and the loss of their livelihood, and the undoubted environmental damage that will occur due to dredging the channel to create a canal do not need elaboration, except to say that if these costs are taken into consideration, the project may actually prove economically unviable.

S.G. Vombatkere,

Mysore

If the project eventually goes through, it will have disastrous environmental and socio-economic repercussions. I can only hope that the religious angle being introduced into this project will succeed in preventing the berserk mishandling of nature by man.

Supriya Rathore,

Bhopal

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