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Centre Sanctions Underwater Research Into Ram Setu Origins
The Central Advisory Board on Archaeology approved the proposal for the underwater exploration of the limestone shoals last month, project to begin soon
| 25 Jan 2021 8:47 AM GMT
NEW DELHI: The government has given approval to an underwater research project to ascertain the origins of the Ram Setu.
Ram Setu is a 48-kilometer-long chain of limestone sandbars which start from the Dhanushkodi tip of Pamban Island, off the south-eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, India, and end at Mannar Island, off the north-western coast of Sri Lanka.
Ram Setu is also known as Rama s Bridge or Adam s Bridge or Nala Setu. Pamban Island is also known as Rameswaram Island.
Multi-disciplinary oceanographic research vessels, belonging to CSIR-National Institute of Oceanographic, which will be used for exploration activity on Ram Setu in Tamil Nadu.
NEW DELHI: An underwater exploration project to determine the age of the Ram Setu, a chain of shoals between India and Sri Lanka, and “how” it was formed will begin this year. Scientists who will be working on the project said it may “help determine the age of the Ramayana period.”
The Central Advisory Board on Archaeology, a body under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), approved the proposal by the CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, (NIO) last month.