Pachauri to head six-member experts committee
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has constituted a six-member experts committee headed by Rajendra K. Pachauri, director-general, Tata Energy Research Institute, to look at an alternative alignment, avoiding the Ramar Sethu stretch, for implementing the Sethusamudram Shipping Channel Project. He is the chairman of the inter-governmental panel on climate change, which shared the 2007 Nobel peace prize. On Wednesday, Fali Nariman, senior counsel appearing for the Centre, informed the court of the constitution of the panel.