It will bring down shipping costs and add to India's exchequer in the form of transit fees.
As the Hindu believers hold it as the structure that Lord Rama and his army of apes and monkeys built thus because of this religious belief, the project has been condemned and opposed by a wide spectrum of the Indian people.
Environmentalists claims that completion of this project would destroy and destabilise the flora and fauna of the in the nearby locations.
They have also claimed that most modern ships carry much higher loads but only ships with tonnage up to 30,000 tonnes would be able to use the canal.
