The document discusses the proposed Sethu Samudram Shipping Canal Project which aims to create a shipping canal linking the Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar between India and Sri Lanka. It would reduce travel distances and times for ships travelling between India's east and west coasts by avoiding the need to navigate around Sri Lanka. The document provides details of the plan including proposed dimensions of the canal and dredging work. It discusses the project's history and changing political support over the decades as well as potential economic benefits likened to the Suez and Panama Canals. Religious objections to disturbing the Ram Sethu are addressed by suggesting an alternative name for the project.

1. SETHU SAMUTHIRA PLAN
• REAL FACT
• COMPARISON
• EXAMPLES OF ECONOMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
• PLAN DETAILS
• RELIGIOUS HOPE & CO-OPEARTION
• NEUTRAL VIEW
• SOLUTION
BY
PROFESSOR : MUHAMMADU SATHIK RAJA .M.S
( PROMOTER - EDUCATION & SOCIAL HARMONY)
manipur tamilan : EMAIL: manipurthegreat@gmail.com , sadiq.success100@gmail.com

2. WHAT IS SETHU CANAL
(SETHU KALVAI)
• The Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project proposes linking the
Palk Bay and the Gulf of Mannar between India and Sri Lanka by
creating a shipping canal.
• The sea is quite shallow, with a depth of less than 10 meters across
most of its extent. Much of its seabed consists of limestone rock. It
formed part of a land bridge that joined Sri Lanka to the continent
ofAsia during the last ice age.
•
• The coast of India does not have a continuous navigation channel
connecting the east and west coasts. Currently the ships coming
from the west coast of India and other western countries with
destination in the east coast of India and also in Bangladesh, China
etc have to navigate around Srilankan coast.

3. WHY- CANAL NEED
• The existing water way is shallow and not sufficient for the
movement of ships. This is due to the presence of a shallow region
known as Adam’s bridge, located southeast of Rameswaram near
Pamban, which connects the Talimannar Coast of Srilanka.
• Due to these factors, the ships originating from west of India and
destined for Chennai, Ennore, Vishakapatnam, Paradeep, Haldia and
Kolkata have to travel around Srilankan coast resulting in increase
of travel distance and time. Apart from these ships belonging to
Indian Navy and Coast Guard need also to traverse around Srilanka.
In order to reduce the steaming distances between the East and
West Coast of India and to improve the navigation within territorial
waters of India, a navigation channel connecting the Gulf of Mannar
and Palk Bay through north of Adam's Bridge has been envisaged so
that the ships moving between the east and west coasts of India
need not go around Sri Lanka .

4. IMAGE OF THE PLACE

5. SATELITE VIEW

6. Salient Features of Channel
 Two way channel
Bottom Width of Channel = 300 m
Depth of Channel = -12 CD
Permissible Draft of Vessel = 10m
Permissible Speed of Vessel in Channel = 8 Knots
Navigation by day and night
Over all length of Channel = 167 Km
Dredged Channel at north of Adam’s Bridge = 35Km
Dredged Channel at Palk Strait = 54 Km
Maximum Vessel Size
Length = 215 m, Breadth = 33 m, Draft = 10 m

7. HISTORY OF THE PLAN
• It is usually descibed as 150 years of Tamil's
dream to bring in Economic prospects for the
Costal districts of Tamil Nadu.
• In 1955, for the first time since Independence,
the Government of India constituted the
Sethusamudram Project Committee under A
Ramaswamy Mudaliar to examine the feasibility
and desirability of connecting the Gulf of Mannar
with Palk Bay and its impact on the port of
Tuticorin.

8. BJP & CONGRESS
• The committee recommended that the canal project be linked to the
Tuticorin Harbour Project and that both projects be undertaken
simultaneously.
• The cost of the joint, project was then estimated at Rs.9.98 crore.
The Sethusamudram Project Committee report was, however, put in
cold storage. In 1963, the government sanctioned only the Tuti-corin
Port project.
• In 1994, the Tamil Nadu government appointed the Pallavan
Transport Consultancy Services in Chennai to appraise and
revalidate a 1983 report. The new report, submitted in March 1996,
further revised the project cost to Rs.760 crore for 31 feet draft.
Hope on the project was revived in January 1999 when defence
minister George Fernandes announced that the government would
complete the digging of the Sethusamudram channel in three years.

9. UNSTABILITY OF CONGRESS
(USUAL)
• This was backed by the prime minister Vajpayee’s assurance that
his government was committed to the project. Indeed, the government took
a concrete step towards the execution of the project when Union finance
minister Yashwant Sinha, in his Budget 2000-01, allocated Rs.4.8 crore for
a feasibility study of the Sethusamudram project.
• Finally, the United Progressive Alliance Government of India
headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced the
inauguration of the project on June 2, 2005

10. SUDDEN OPPOSE –WHY – POLITICAL
REASON- USING RELIGIOUS FAITH -BJP
• Ironically the Sethusamudram Ship canal
project currently opposed by the BJP and
Sangh Parivar for votebank Politics was
cleared when L.K.Advani was the Indian
Home Minister.

11. COMPARISON – SUEZ CANAL
• SUEZ CANAL – EGYPT - (WORLD FIRST &
LARGEST SEA CANAL DURING 18 TH CENTURY . –
195 KM LONG
• PANAMA CANAL - WORLD SECOND LARGEST
SEA CANAL – CONNECTING AMERICA CONTINENT TO
OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD – DURING 19 TH CENTURY –
75 KM LONG
• SETHU CANAL – MAY BE THIRD CANAL
BUT BECOME SECOND LARGEST CANAL OF THE WORLD
BECAUSE – 167 KM IN LENGTH. “INDIA SHOULD NOT MISS
THE CHANCE”

12. SUEZ CANAL

13. BOON TO ARABIAN GULF

14. ADVANTAGES OF SUEZ CANAL

15. PANAMA -CANAL

16. BOON TO AMERICAN GULF

17. COMPARE & ANALYSE THE
GROWTH

18. SETHU CANAL
BOON TO INDIAN GULF ( GULF OF MANNAR)

19. RELIGIOUS BELIEF
• JEWS ,CHRISTIANS & MUSLIMS ARE
• BELIEVE THAT THE SAND MIXWD LIME
STONE BRIDGE WAS CONSTRUCTED BY
ADAM (THE FIRST MAN OF THE WORLD )
• HINDUS BELIEVE THAT THE BRIDGE WAS
CONSTRUCTED BY KING RAMA & HIS
TROOPS
• SCIENTIST & ARCHAELOGIST SAYS THAT IT
IS NOT A BRIDGE BUT ONLY SAND BULGE
DUE TO SHIFT OF OCEAN ( ACCORIND TO
BIG BANG THEORY )

20. SOLUTION – RAM SETHU
CANAL
• NO NEED TO CRITICISE THE BELIEF OF ANY
COMMUNITY . BUT WE NEED GROWTH FOR OUR
COUNTRY.
• AS PER OUR HINDU BROTHERS BELIEF WE CAN
CHANGE PROJECT NAME AS “ RAM SETHU CANAL”
– THE GOD WILL NOT STAND AGAINST THE
GROWTH OF HUMAN KIND
• INDIA SHOULD MADE THE WORLD RECORD .
• ANALYSE & TAKE DECISION BY THINKING THE
FUTURE GENERATION