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India’s ₹81,000 crore Great Nicobar mega project has cleared a key legal hurdle as the NGT backs its strategic importance while raising environmental, tribal and biodiversity concerns that could shape its future. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/great-nicobar-mega-project-ngt-environment-clearance-india-explained-ihoyx7lg?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GreatNicobar #NGT #Infrastructure #Environment #AndamanNicobar

Mathrubhumi English Dec 22

What is the Great Nicobar airport project and why is it controversial? https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/great-nicobar-airport-project-strategic-benefits-environmental-risks-explained-m2qj8f6v?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GreatNicobar #AirportProject #IndiaDefence #IndianOcean #Environment

View from Elephant Hills May 22, 2025

Here’s something I want you to read, something that simply had to be said, even as I wish for a world where something like this would never have needed to be written. Here’s why.

First, it concerns a proposed project so monumental in its ambitions as in its folly, and so egregious in its likely destruction of vulnerable human lives and ecologies that it deserves all the attention, critique, […]

https://shankarraman.in/2025/05/22/great-nicobar-greenwashing-a-catastrophe/

Great Nicobar: Greenwashing a Catastrophe

Here’s something I want you to read, something that simply had to be said, even as I wish for a world where something like this would never have needed to be written. Here’s why. First,…

View from Elephant Hills

T. R. Shankar Raman Apr 6, 2025

Powerful piece by Ramachandra Guha on the planned ecological and social disaster that is the #GreatNicobar infrastructure and transhipment terminal project.
#conservation #restoration #islands #Andamans #Nicobar #biodiversity #tribals #shipping #destructiveDevelopment
https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/destruction-foretold-the-planned-disaster-of-the-great-nicobar-island-prnt/cid/2092519

T. R. Shankar Raman Feb 13, 2025

In the superb new issue of #Frontline... a piece by Rohan Arthur and myself:

An obit for Patai Takaru
"Great Nicobar’s mitigation plans reduce #restoration to tree-planting and reef relocation—a deceptive fix for irreversible #ecological loss."
https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/great-nicobar-island-andaman-ecological-development-coral-reefs-marine-ecosystems-climate-change/article69158539.ece
#GreatNicobar #islands #Andamans #Conservation #ClimateCrisis #India

Great Nicobar’s Flawed Restoration Plan: Why Tree-Planting and Reef Relocation Won’t Save Its Ecosystem

The Great Nicobar development project’s mitigation plan oversimplifies ecological restoration, reducing it to tree-planting and reef relocation. Here’s why that’s a dangerous illusion.

Frontline

T. R. Shankar Raman Feb 12, 2025

A scathing, devastating critique of the outrageous, thoughtlessly destructive, and ecologically damaging #GreatNicobar infrastructure project, by Pankaj Sekhsaria in #Frontline. Everyone concerned with #nature, #environment, and #biodiversity #conservation in #India should be deeply troubled by this disastrous project and how it's being pushed through.
https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/great-nicobar-infrastructure-environmental-tragedy/article69158497.ece
#Andamans #Nicobars #islands #shipping #tourism #AndamanNicobar

Great Nicobar’s Mega Project: A Costly Gamble with Forests, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Rights

The Rs. 80,000 crore Great Nicobar project faces scrutiny over deforestation, biodiversity loss, legal challenges, and cost escalations. Experts question its environmental clearances and economic feasibility.

Frontline