Sir — This refers to the news report, “Sethu project will wipe out coral reef: Zoological Survey” (April 12). The study by the Zoological Survey of India emphatically reinforces the fact that the misconceived project needs to be totally abandoned.
Having dragged its feet on deciding against the project, the Congress-led UPA Government recently made a sudden U-turn before the Supreme Court, evidently to please its sulking ally, the DMK. This political decision should be reversed and the project shelved, as the ‘compelling’ reasons for the Congress to keep the DMK in good humour do not now exist.