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India plans to dredge a channel in the seabed between India and Sri Lanka
has run into choppy waters.
Opponents of the project claim it could alter maritime and military
operations in the Indian Ocean, besides an environmental catastrophe.
The US$400m project, called the Sethusamudram Ship Canal, involves digging a
152km, 300m-wide channel through the Palk Strait, a shallow stretch of sea
separating the south Indian peninsula and Sri Lanka.
If it is created, it will carve out a continuous navigable sea route around
India, and reduce the trip by a day for cargo ships that currently need to
go around Sri Lanka |
