Rahul Gandhi said the Great Nicobar Island project “is not development” but “destruction dressed in development’s language” and “must be stopped”
Far away from Indian mainland, the government is pumping billions of dollars into a controversial development project.
The global energy crisis stemming from the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has added complexity to already competitive China-India maritime relations. The bottleneck in the Gulf has disrupted the provision of vital supplies of oil, gas and fertilisers to Asia, underscoring the fragility of global supply chains and the significance of trade chokepoints. Amid uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz’s reopening, India’s US$10 billion plan to transform remote Great Nicobar Island into a...
Former Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has been writing to Union Ministers about the alleged violations of procedures in the clearances granted for the Centre’s ₹92,000 crore Great Nicobar Island infrastructure project; Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram has argued that the development of the island and protection of tribal interests need not be mutually exclusive