the Cabinet Committee for Economic Affairs cleared the Rs 2427 crore plus Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project (sscp) on May 19. The very one for which the Prime Minister's Office (pmo) had, about two and a half months ago, raised serious concerns.

In early March the pmo mandated a re-look into the entire project borne out of the December Tsunami disaster, observing that information about the effects of tsunamis and cyclones on the project were