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Chairman, Tuticorin Port Trust & CMD, Sethusamudram Corporation Limited has been elevated to the rank of Additional Secretary to the Government of India

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Chairman's message about Sethusamudram Canal - Press Release on 14.03.2006

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Sethusamudram Corporation - Coastal Community Development Training - Press Release on 03.03.2006
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Inaugural Function - Coastal Community Development Scheme-Press Release on 30.12.2005                                                                                                              Inaugural function of Sethusamudram's Coastal community development scheme
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Sethusamudram Corporation - Suez Body Pact - Press Release on 18.12.2005  Sethusamudram Corporation Limited (SCL) on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), Egypt for cooperation in
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SSCP-Dredging workstatus-Press Release on 02.09.2005  
Tuticorin Port Trust commenced the dredging work  of Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project on 2-7-2005, the day  on which the Project works were inaugurated by the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India.   The work in Palk Strait for a length of 13.57 km app.                                                                                                              More

 Execution of Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project - Press Release on 5.7.2005

Execution of Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project - raising of funds by UTI Bank Ltd., The Central Government has sanctioned the implementation of Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project, at an approximate cost of Rs.2427 crores, of which the debt component will be around Rs.1456 crores.                                                     More

 Development of Second Container Terminal at Tuticorin Port - 5.7.2005

Tuticorin Port Commenced Container Handling operation during 1979-80 with a meagre number of 121 boxes.  An American shipping line studied the container traffic  in the Port  and  during its first year of operation handled 9325 TEUs in 1980-81.       More

 Sethusamudram channel project foundation laying on July 2 - Hindu 23.6.2005

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation for the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project on July 2 in the presence of Congress president Sonia Candhi and Dravid Munnetra Kazhagam chief M. Karunanidhi.                                        More

 Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project  - Hindu 22.6.2005

With the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project going to take off shortly, the following projects should be completed simultaneously:                                             More

 Sethusamudram Project Minister allays Fears - Hindu 19.6.2005

“No displacement of fishermen, core issues clarified” 

Fishing activity in the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Strait will not be affected at all due to the implementation of the Sethusamudram channel project, the Union Minister for Shipping, T.R. Baalu, said on Saturday.                                                      More

 Sethusamudram to take off in a couple of weeks NT Bureau Chennai, 16.6.2005

           Work on the much-talked-about Sethusamudram Canal Project is set to commence at last.                                                                                     More

 Sethusamudram Project now well on course - Exim News Service 16.6.2005

The Sethusamudram waves are washing ashore more noisily now. It’s a bustle of activity as the decks are being cleared for the foundation stone-laying ceremony either this month-end or early July.                                                                     More

Sethusamudram gets the green signal

The centre has cleared the proposal to dredge a ship channel across the palk straits, an idea conceived 150 years ago.  P.Sundararajan in New Delhi and N.Ravikumar in Chennai.                                                                       More

  Cabinet approves Rs.2427 crores Sethu Project - Hindu, 20.5.2005

The cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) on Thursday approved the proposal for implementation of the ambitious Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project (SSCP) at a cost of Rs.2427.40 crore.                                                                         More

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