07-30-2007, 12:32 AM
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Pioneer.com
IANS | Chennai
The Central Government has asked the chairman of the Setusamudram Corporation Ltd (SCL) NK. Raghupathy to go on leave.Â
Raghupathy was asked by the Shipping Ministry to go on two-month leave on Saturday night within hours of his telling mediapersons about an email from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) regarding the Adam's Bridge, through which the Rs 25 billion canal will be cut.
NASA has said that the structure of sand bars and rocks situated in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka, known as Ram Setu or Adam's Bridge in maps, is a natural phenomenon and not a man-made structure, Raghupathy told the media, claiming he had received an e-mail from the Johnson Space Centre. "This evidence contradicts claims that said it (Ram Setu) was created by humans," Raghupathy told mediapersons.
"The chain of small islets connecting India and Sri Lanka are real geographical features that have been mapped for centuries. Chains of islands form a variety of natural geological processes and their occurrence is not evidence of any human activity," he said quoting the email.
"My sharing this communication with the media is without prejudice to the contentions made in yet to be disposed of litigation concerning the Ram Setu controversy in the Supreme Court," Raghupathy added.
Several petitions against the controversial Setusamudram ship canal project are pending in the apex court. Environmental groups and NGOs have filed most of them.
The petitioners say the canal connecting the Bay of Bengal to the Indian Ocean will destroy the region's marine ecology and fisheries.
Raghupathy, who has headed SCL since it was set up two years ago, said on Saturday night that he wanted to go on a month's leave as he was "overworked".
Raghupathy is also chairman of the Tuticorin Port Trust, the nodal agency for implementing the Setusamudram project. He handed over charge of both the units to Chennai Port Trust chairman K Suresh.
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These moron used anything from NASA as God's word, Do they know stink called politics from NASA? Indians babus are complete jokers.
Pioneer.com
IANS | Chennai
The Central Government has asked the chairman of the Setusamudram Corporation Ltd (SCL) NK. Raghupathy to go on leave.Â
Raghupathy was asked by the Shipping Ministry to go on two-month leave on Saturday night within hours of his telling mediapersons about an email from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) regarding the Adam's Bridge, through which the Rs 25 billion canal will be cut.
NASA has said that the structure of sand bars and rocks situated in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka, known as Ram Setu or Adam's Bridge in maps, is a natural phenomenon and not a man-made structure, Raghupathy told the media, claiming he had received an e-mail from the Johnson Space Centre. "This evidence contradicts claims that said it (Ram Setu) was created by humans," Raghupathy told mediapersons.
"The chain of small islets connecting India and Sri Lanka are real geographical features that have been mapped for centuries. Chains of islands form a variety of natural geological processes and their occurrence is not evidence of any human activity," he said quoting the email.
"My sharing this communication with the media is without prejudice to the contentions made in yet to be disposed of litigation concerning the Ram Setu controversy in the Supreme Court," Raghupathy added.
Several petitions against the controversial Setusamudram ship canal project are pending in the apex court. Environmental groups and NGOs have filed most of them.
The petitioners say the canal connecting the Bay of Bengal to the Indian Ocean will destroy the region's marine ecology and fisheries.
Raghupathy, who has headed SCL since it was set up two years ago, said on Saturday night that he wanted to go on a month's leave as he was "overworked".
Raghupathy is also chairman of the Tuticorin Port Trust, the nodal agency for implementing the Setusamudram project. He handed over charge of both the units to Chennai Port Trust chairman K Suresh.
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These moron used anything from NASA as God's word, Do they know stink called politics from NASA? Indians babus are complete jokers.