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.

https://article-14.com/post/india-s-alternative-to-hong-kong-proceeds-in-lush-nicobar-island-as-govt-ignores-pleas-of-local-tribals-64fa9d1da1bed

#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

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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.