Great Nicobar Project

Andaman Lt. Governor met with MoEFCC Officials to discuss the Great Nicobar project. The meeting emphasized implementing mitigation measures during construction and operational phases to eliminate environmental damage.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh criticizes PM Modi's Great Nicobar Project, calling it an environmental disaster. He states the nation's ecological conscience is on trial.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) requested a report from the Home Ministry on the Great Nicobar Project and is deliberating the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Institute of Medical Sciences.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh wrote to Sonowal seeking clarifications on the Great Nicobar project's transhipment port. He questioned whether private ownership of ports would be diversified or follow the airports model where one company acquired six airports.

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju stated that the Great Nicobar Project will significantly boost India's economic growth by becoming a major maritime and logistics hub in the Indo-Pacific region.

Congress stated the Great Nicobar project is purely commercial with no military infrastructure. Jairam Ramesh accused the Centre of a policy of 'Continuing, Calibrated Capitulation to China.'

Jairam Ramesh criticized the government for non-transparency in the Great Nicobar project. The Congress accused the transshipment port on Galathea Bay of causing ecological havoc and destroying coral colonies.