Chennai: The CPI today demanded that the Centre should take necessary steps to vacate the Supreme Court stay on the dredging work near Adam's bridge for completing the Sethu Samudram project expeditiously.
The party's National Council after its meeting here today, said in a resolution that the project work had come to standstill, causing great concern to the people in general and also leading to escalation of the project cost. In 2007, a few PILs were filed in Supreme Court, expressing some apprehensions about the project, following which the dredging operations near Adam s bridge was stayed.
The resolution said the project was approved by the Vajpayee government and budgetary allocations was also made by his government. The project was subsequently approved by the Planning Commission and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the work in 2005. The project was of national importance and would have an "impact" on Indian economy, it said.
