Treta Yuga (Hindu timelini)

Lord Rama constructs a bridge between India and Sri Lanka

1900s (exact year?)

British rename the Ramasethu bridge as 'Adam's Bridge'

1860 - 1922

As many as nine proposals were made for cutting a Ship Channel across the narrow strip of land to connect the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Bay with the object of providing a short-cut for ocean-going ships plying between the West Coast of India and the East Coast

1956

Sethusamudram Project Committee formed to contemplate a 26 feet canal dig at the mainland at Rameshwaram at a cost of Rs 210 million

1967

Nagendra Singh Committee Report recommends a 30 feet canal at an alternate site near the Rameshwaram Island Crossing at a cost of Rs 370 million

1981

Laksminarayana Committee Report recommends construction of two channels called the south and north channels and also construction of a lock in the land portion connecting both the channels across the 'K' alignment near Dhanushkodi at a cost of Rs 2820 million

1996

Pallavan Transport Consultance Service Report recommends a number of infrastrucral facilities to be constructed in addition to the canal. These included locks, flotilla, harbour tugs, navigational aids, jetties, shore facilities, dispatch vessels, slipways and buildings

1997

Ministry of Surface Transport appoints Tuticorin Port Trust as Nodal Agency

1997

Ministry of Surface Transport appoints the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) to draft an Initial Environmental Examination (IEE) Report. The study recommended a canal cutting the Pamban Island, east of Kothandaramasamy temple, which it claimed will cause least damage to the biota and the environment

2004

Tuticorin Port Trust engages M/s. L & T-Ramboll Consulting Engineers, Chennai for preparation of a Detailed Project Report. The report claimed to establish the financial viability of the Project.

2005

Formal inauguration of the Sethusamudram project

2006

Commencement of dredging work at Ramasethu and Palk Strait

2006

Hindu leaders in India meet President of India to lodge protest against destruction of Ramasethu

February 2007

Shankaracharya of Puri and other Hindu leaders meet in the holy town of Vrindavana to launch a national campaign

March 2007

Hindu organizations from ten countries around the world launch the 'Save Ramasethu Campaign' (Ramasethu Bachao Andolan)

1

Registration of Sethusamudram Corporation Ltd.

*06.12.2004

2

Submission of DPR to the Ministry

*01.03.2005

3

Appraisal by F.I. arranger

31/05/2005

4

Financial closure

30/06/2005

5

Launching of Sethusamudram Corporation Limited Web Site

30/06/2005

6

Inauguration of Sethusamudram Project

02/07/2005

7

Approval of the competent authority

0 week

8

Pre-qualification and tender process (for dredging)

12 weeks

9

Award of work

16 weeks

10

Mobilisation of Dredging equipment and pre-dredge survey

24 weeks

11

Commencement of dredging at Adams bridge area and Palk strait area

24 weeks

12

Preparation of designs, drawings and tender documents for onshore facilities

26 weeks

13

Preparation of tender documents for procurement of Navigational aids, Port crafts

38 weeks

14

Call of tenders, pre-qualification process for procurement of Navigational aids and Port crafts & on shore facilities

50 weeks

15

Award of work for on shore facilities

56 weeks

16

Placing of supply orders for procurement of Navigational aids and Port crafts

62 weeks

17

Completion of procurement of Navigational aids and Port crafts

148 weeks

18

Completion of Service Jetties and Navigational towers

160 weeks

19

Completion of dredging work

166 weeks

20

Post dredging survey

168 weeks

21

Installation of VTMS

168 weeks

22

Commencement of Trials/ Tests

172 weeks

23

Commencement of Channel Operation

180 weeks