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NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and AICC General Secretary (Communication) Jairam Ramesh on Saturday questioned the Centre's claims that the proposed infrastructure project on Great Nicobar Island would not displace local tribal communities, pointing to what he described as a "fundamental contradiction" in official statements. Citing a media report, Ramesh said the Andaman and Nicobar administration has drafted a "Comprehensive Tribal Welfare Plan" that includes provisions for the relocation ...Read More >
This includes around 130 square km of pristine forest inhabited by the Nicobarese, a Scheduled Tribe (ST), and the Shompens, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), whose population is estimated to be between 200 and 300. In a detailed letter to Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, the signatories said it was "disingenuous to label what is essentially a commercial project as a strategic one and invoke national security whenever questions on the project are raised". They cautioned that ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday slammed as "specious argument" Home Minister Amit Shah's remarks that the Great Nicobar Island Development Project will increase the country's maritime trade multiple times. Congress general secretary in-charge communications and former environment minister Jairam Ramesh asserted that the project's "devastating ecological and social impacts are beyond doubt". The opposition party's attack on the government came a day after over 70 scientists, environmentalist ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], September 8 (ANI): Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday reposted Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi editorial on X on the Holistic Development of Great Nicobar project and termed it as a serious issue. Tharoor mentioned the importance of development and having a strategic base on the island, but stressed it can also be done in an ecological manner. This is a serious issue. Development is important and so is having a strategic base in the Islands, but they ...Read More >
New Delhi: Terming the Great Nicobar infrastructure project a "planned misadventure", Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday said it poses an existential danger to the island's indigenous tribal communities and is being insensitively pushed through, making a "mockery of all legal and deliberative processes".The collective conscience cannot, and must not, stay silent when the very survival of the Shompen and Nicobarese tribes is at stake, Sonia Gandhi said in an article p ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 9 (PTI) The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes has refused to share information on the impact of a proposed mega infrastructure project on Great Nicobar Island, the southernmost part of Indian territory, on primitive tribal groups and the relocation of villages from tiger reserves, citing parliamentary privilege and other legal exemptions. This PTI correspondent filed an RTI application on April 3 this year, requesting minutes of all commission meetings held since January 1 ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 30 (PTI) Tribal communities in Great Nicobar are not opposed to development but lack sufficient information about a proposed mega infrastructure project on the island, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) member Asha Lakra has said. The project, titled Holistic Development of Great Nicobar, involves the construction of a transshipment port, an international airport, a township and a power plant over more than 160 square km of land. This includes around 130 square km of ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 30 (PTI) Tribal communities in Great Nicobar are not opposed to development but lack sufficient information about a proposed mega infrastructure project on the island, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) member Asha Lakra has said. The project, titled Holistic Development of Great Nicobar, involves the construction of a transshipment port, an international airport, a township and a power plant over more than 160 square km of land. This includes around 130 square km of ...Read More >
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