The detailed project report (DPR) of SilverLine is a fabricated document strewn with technical glitches and it is quite unlikely for the project to get approval from the Centre, technocrat E. Sreedharan said here on Tuesday.
“The project is technologically not stable and the DPR has several factual errors making it more of an imaginary piece of work. Even if it gets the nod, it will be conditional and the State government will require minimum two years to prepare a new DPR,” he said.
Mr. Sreedharan said since SilverLine cut through thickly populated and environmentally important areas, social and environmental impacts of the project should be studied in detail. “The project is likely to affect water drainage and normal flow due to the topographical features of the State. It will lead to floods and washouts.”
