Why in News?
The Great Nicobar Island mega infrastructure project has raised concerns over diversion of forest land and alleged coercion of tribal communities to surrender ancestral lands.
Description:
Key Terms:
- Great Nicobar Island: Southernmost island of India, part of the Andaman & Nicobar archipelago, ecologically fragile and seismically active.
- Nicobarese: Scheduled Tribe community inhabiting coastal areas of Great Nicobar.
- Shompen: Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), nomadic/semi-nomadic, inhabiting interior forests.
About the Project:
- Location: Great Nicobar Island
- Forest land involved: Significant portion of tropical evergreen forests.
- Area overlaps with tribal reserves notified under the Andaman & Nicobar Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Regulation (ANPATR), 1956.
- Development of International trans-shipment port, Greenfield international airport, Township, Power and related infrastructure
- Implementing agency: Andaman & Nicobar Islands Integrated Development Corporation (ANIIDCO).
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