more-inThe deadline set to commission Phase I of the country’s first International Multi-purpose Deepwater Seaport project at Vizhinjam in the State capital by the Adani Group in 1,000 days is to be missed. “The 1000 days (December 2019) target is far from reality now and there will be a delay of three to four months as per the current pace of the work,’’ an official associated with the “dream project” told The Hindu. Of 17,600 Accropode Version II needed for outer phase of breakwater, only 2,200 had been cast. Adani Group chairman Gautam S. Adani had announced the 1000 days target after signing the concession agreement for the project between the State and AVPL in August 2015 though a four-year deadline had been fixed in the pact. A judicial inquiry ordered by the LDF government in the wake of the C & AG report is on.

Source: The Hindu February 25, 2018 12:56 UTC