New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI) Over 70 scientists, environmentalists and former bureaucrats on Monday urged the government to reconsider the Rs 92,000-crore Great Nicobar Island project, claiming that it is “an exploitative commercial proposal” being “wrongly portrayed as a strategic defence project”.

The mega infrastructure project, titled Holistic Development of Great Nicobar, involves the construction of a transhipment port, an international airport, a township and a power plant over more than 160 square km of land.

This includes around 130 square km of pristine forest inhabited by the Nicobarese, a Scheduled Tribe (ST), and the Shompens, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), whose population is estimated to be between 200 and 300. Show Full Article

In a detailed letter to Environm

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