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Who among the following conceived the idea of shipping canal between India and Srilanka?

Who among the following conceived the idea of shipping canal between India and Srilanka? Correct Answer <span style="">A. D. Taylor</span>

Correct Answer: A.D Taylor

Key Points

  • Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project is a proposed project to create a shipping route in the shallow straits between India and Sri Lanka. This would provide a continuously navigable sea route around the Indian Peninsula. The channel would be dredged in the Sethusamudram sea between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, passing through the limestone shoals of Rama's Bridge (also known as Ram Sethu, Ramar Palam, and Adam's Bridge).

  • The project involves digging a 44.9-nautical-mile (51.7 mi; 83.2 km) long deepwater channel linking the shallow Palk Strait with the Gulf of Mannar. Conceived in 1860 by Alfred Dundas Taylor, it recently received approval from the Indian government.

  • Alfred Dundas Taylor (1825-1898) was head of the Marine Survey Department of the admiralty of the United Kingdom. he was born on 30 August 1825 in England son of George Ledwell Taylor (1788-1873), who worked as an architect for the Admiralty. He is stated to have the first proposed the Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project, in about 1860, later proposed in 1955, and not begun until 1995.

Additional Information

  •  What are the other advantages of the project? The project will lead to considerable savings and earnings of foreign exchange. It is estimated that the Exim trade incurred an additional expenditure of around Rs 1,000 crore in foreign exchange in transshipment of Indian cargo outside the country during the financial year 2003-04 alone. There will be substantial savings for the shipping companies, exporters, importers, and manufacturers. 

  • Trade will benefit from the reduction in maritime transportation costs. The channel will become an invaluable asset from a national defense and security point of view enabling easier and quicker access between the coasts. Indian coast guard and naval ships will not have to circumnavigate around Sri Lanka. . and Indian fishing boats will be able to transmit freely through Adam's Bridge. This is not possible today. Fishermen will directly benefit due to the potential for the development of fishing harbors (between Nagapattinam and Tuticorin) with proper landing and storage facilities. Maritime trade in Tamil Nadu, both coastal and international, will flourish with the rapid development of the existing minor port in Ramanathapuram.

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