Supreme Court has granted another six weeks to government to apprise it of its stand on the controversial Sethusamudram project . A high-level committee has said that an alternative alignment, other than the one through mythological Ram Sethu, is not economically and ecologically feasible.

A bench of justices H L Dattu and C K Prasad gave more time to the government to make its stand on the project and posted the case for further hearing to December 3.

The case relating to Ram Sethu had come under judicial scrutiny due to a batch of petitions filed in the apex court against the ambitious Sethusamudram project, whose execution allegedly could damage the mythological bridge.

Sethusamudram project is aimed at constructing a shorter navigational route around India's southern tip by breaching the Ram Sethu, said to have been built by Lord Rama's army of monkeys and bears to Ravana's kingdom Lanka.