The Kerala High Court on Thursday asked the Centre to explain its stand on the social impact assessment (SIA) survey being conducted by the State government for the proposed SilverLine rail project.
Justice Devan Ramachandran orally observed that the court wanted to know whether the Centre was in favour of the SIA survey or not. It was being done by the State government on the ground that it had got in-principle approval from the the Railway Board. In fact, the project was a joint venture in which the Centre had 49% shareholding. The Centre would also benefit from the project.
The court made these oral observations when a batch of writ petitions challenging the SIA for the project came up for hearing.
