India’s ‘Alternative To Hong Kong’ Proceeds In Lush Nicobar Island, As Govt Ignores Pleas Of Local Tribals
Over the past 17 years, and most recently in 2022, hunter-gatherers, fisherfolk & farmers of a Nicobarese tribe—inhabiting a rainforest-draped island of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago for about 50,000 years—have pleaded with the union government to return them to their ancestral land. But with a Rs 72,000-crore plan to build a giant port, international airport, power plant and tourism facilities by cutting about a million trees in 130 sq km of rainforest, the government has erected a wall of silence to their requests to return home.
#AndamanNicobarIslands #nicobarese #GreatNicobar #TribalRights #ForestRights #deforestation #andamans #RainForests #environment #EcoDestruction #CivilRights #displacement #UnionGovt #india
#andamannicobarislands #nicobarese #greatnicobar #TribalRights #forestrights #deforestation #andamans #rainforests #environment #ecodestruction #civilrights #displacement #uniongovt #india
‘Pristine habitat’: 87 ex-bureaucrats ask President Droupadi Murmu to halt Great Nicobar project
The project involves the construction of a Rs 35,000-crore trans-shipment port, an international airport, a power plant, a township and tourism infrastructure.
#GreatNicobar #GreatNicobarProject #environment #UnionGovt #NitiAayog #EnvironmentalImpact #infrastructure #port #DraupadiMurmu #shompens #tribals #ForestRights #india
#greatnicobar #greatnicobarproject #environment #uniongovt #nitiaayog #environmentalimpact #infrastructure #port #DraupadiMurmu #shompens #tribals #forestrights #india
RT @vaishnaroy
Mega project or mega folly? As govt gets in-principle env clearance for a Rs 72,000 crore project in fragile #GreatNicobar, think of #Joshimathcrisis where too eco concerns were swept under the carpet. Lead story by @pankajsekh + pieces on flora, fauna, tribes, terrain.
#greatnicobar #joshimathcrisis