On Monday, green tribunal declined to interfere with environmental clearances for #GreatNicobarProject. scroll.in/article/1077...

It said there are ‘adequate safeguards’ in the clearance.

However, in 2025, the anthropologist, who was asked to assess project's impact, raised serious doubts.

On Monday, the National Green Tribunal directed the authorities and regulatory agencies to ensure “full and strict” compliance with the conditions laid down in the environmental clearance.

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The tribal chiefs alleged that the administration made the demand to develop the #GreatNicobarProject, which includes construction of a new township, a power plant, a greenfield international airport and a transshipment port.

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Govt doesn't name tribal lands on maps for megaprojects In ‘Island on Edge: The Great Nicobar Crisis,' Pankaj Sekhsaria explores the plight of the indigenous Nicobarese and how mega-development projects threaten their existence.

Read this excerpt from Pankaj Sekhsaria edited Island on Edge, delving into how tribal lands are getting erased in the #GreatNicobarProject.

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Join us for the launch of Pankaj Sekhsaria edited Island on Edge on Tuesday, 9 December at India International Centre.

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Find out more about the world of the Nicobar group of islands and what truly is at stake in the different essays in Island on Edge (ed. by Pankaj Sekhsaria)

Now in bookstores and online.

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It is pub day for the most awaited Island on Edge (ed. by Pankaj Sekhsaria), asking the important questions about the #GreatNicobarProject.
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‘Grave misadventure’ endangering tribals, ecology: Sonia Gandhi criticises Great Nicobar Project New Delhi, Sep 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi has strongly criticised the Centre's Great Nicobar Island Project, calling it a "grave misadventure" that tramples tribal rights, undermines due process, and threatens one of the country's most fragile ecosystems. In her op-ed titled 'The making of an ecological disaster in the Nicobar' published in a leading daily, Gandhi warned that the "collective conscience cannot and must not stay silent when the very survival of the Shompen and Nicobarese tribes is at risk."

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Interview: Now ‘everyone is afraid’ of speaking about the Great Nicobar project, says ornithologist “My first reaction was that nothing is safe now. Not even an officially recognised sanctuary.”

Dr Asad Rahmani, former member of the National Board of Wildlife, was dismissive of the methods that the environmental impact assessment of the #GreatNicobarproject envisages to protect megapodes.

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“It is like murdering a person and then trying to find what killed him.”

Great Nicobar Project: The tribal affairs minister’s obfuscations in the Rajya Sabha Jual Oram said he was not aware of objections by vulnerable tribal groups on the island, but this is at odds with his own statements and the available facts.

Jual Oram's statements are in line with the government’s position on #GreatNicobarProject, but a closer scrutiny of the facts, including his own statements, reveals a conflicting picture.

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Pankaj Sekhsaria examines how the tribal minister's claims don't add up.

Jual Oram's statements are in line with the government’s position on #GreatNicobarProject, but a closer scrutiny of the facts, including his own statements, reveals a conflicting picture.

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Pankaj Sekhsaria examines how the tribal minister's claims don't add up.

Vaishnavi Rathore, the first journalist to report on the #GreatNicobarProject from the ground about its environmental and social impacts, was awarded for the “excellence, depth, and relevance” of her work.

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Crushed: How India plans to sacrifice one of the world’s most isolated tribes to create “the new Hong Kong” - Survival International This report, compiled by Survival International for the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), relevant United Nations Special Rapporteurs and other relevant UN officials, docum...

Survival ha appena pubblicato un rapporto che dimostra che il #GreatNicobarProject avrebbe un impatto genocida sugli Shompen, e deve essere fermato!

Leggi il rapporto (in inglese): svlint.org/ShompenReport
E intervieni subito: svlint.org/email-Shompen-BS
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The Centre on Wednesday denied receiving video report recording tribal opposition to #GreatNicobarproject.

Back in January, anthropologist Vishvajit Pandya, who was asked to assess the impact of the project told Scroll, "We never heard from the administration."

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Centre denies receiving video report recording tribal opposition to Great Nicobar project MP Saket Gokhale questioned the government’s stance, pointing out that the assessment was prepared at the request of the Andaman and Nicobar administration.

MP Saket Gokhale questioned the government’s stance, pointing out that the assessment was prepared at the request of the Andaman and Nicobar administration.

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Interview: Releasing Nicobar report would be like ‘opening can of worms’, says anthropologist Asked to assess the impact of future projects on the Great Nicobar island, Vishvajit Pandya never heard back after he submitted a report to the administration.

Asked to assess the impact of future projects on the Great Nicobar island, anthropologist Vishvajit Pandya never heard back after he submitted a report to the administration.

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Vaishnavi Rathore talks to Pandya to know his thoughts on the #GreatNicobarProject.

Asked to assess the impact of future projects on the #GreatNicobar island, Vishvajit Pandya never heard back after he submitted a report to the administration.

Read the anthropologist's conversation with Scroll's Vaishnavi Rathore on the #GreatNicobarProject.

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"There were presentations of acres of land that will be taken up for the project. But what is there on that land, the territory of three different Shompen groups that exist, they've not bothered to consider that issue," says the anthropologist about #GreatNicobarProject.

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