Key Points
The Sethusamudram shipping channel project has been facing protests from some political parties, environmentalists and certain Hindu religious groups...
A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking that the Ram Setu be declared as a national monument...
The PIL, filed by advocate Ashok Pandey, also seeks construction of a wall at the spot to facilitate devotees...
On March 20, the top court had said that it will list at the earliest a petition by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy seeking a direction to the Centre to declare the Ram Setu as a national heritage monument...
Mr. Swamy had raised the issue of declaring the Ram Setu a national monument in his PIL against the controversial Sethusamudram Ship Channel project, initiated by the UPA-I government...
