The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday reserved its order on a batch of petitions challenging environmental clearances granted to the Great Nicobar Island mega-infrastructure project, and a fresh plea seeking full disclosure of a panel report on re-examination of the project’s clearances.

A six-member bench, headed by NGT chairperson Prakash Shrivastava, said that it will consider the interlocutory application (IA) filed by petitioner Ashish Kothari, challenging the Centre’s stance of confidentiality on the report of a high-powered committee (HPC). “We are reserving it for orders, at the same time in this order itself we will decide the IA,” Justice Shrivastava said.

The HPC, headed by the former environment secretary Leena Nandan, was formed in April 2023 on orders of the NGT to ad

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