Hindu
on 23.06.2005
T.R.Baalu
invites Chief Minister to the function as the guest of honour
MADURAI: Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation for the
Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project on July 2 in the presenceof
Congress president Sonia Candhi and Dravid Munnetra Kazhagam
chief M. Karunanidhi.
A formal invitation will
be extended to Governer S.S. Barnala and Chief Minister
Jayalalithaa by Deputy Chairman of the Sethusamudram Corporation
Limited (SCL), Union Minister for Shipping T.R. Baalu said here
on Wednesday.
Releasing the SCL
logo, Mr. Baalu extended an invitation to Ms. Jayalalithaa
through the media. “I invite the Chief Minister to kindly
participate in the SSCP foundation-laying ceremony as the guest
of honour,” he said.
All Union
Minister from Tamil Nadu will participate in the function for
which the State Ministers, MPS and MLAs will be invited.
To a question, Mr. Baalu said be expected the State
Government to allot land for construction of the project office.
“If there is undue delay, then we will take some private land
for the purpose.” He reiterated that fishing would not be
affected by the dredging work.
The draft of memorandum
of understanding between the Suez Canal authorities and SCL has
been approved by Officials. The MoU will be signed after the
approval of the Union Cabinet, he said.
The building plan of the project office, to be set up at
either Mandapam or Rameshwaram, was released on the occasion.
What
the logo means
Rupesh Vyas, Coordinator, Information and Digital Design,
National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, designed the logo for
SCL.
It has a green circle (with an abstract map of India)
representing the globe. Two white band represent the two-way
channel and the upward direction of the channel stands for
prosperity and growth. A green strap, in between the channels
represents the ecology of marine life.
