A&n Islands Will Hold A Public Hearing On Rs 72k Cr Project; Environmentalists Yell Foul

A&N Islands will hold a public hearing on Rs 72K Cr project; environmentalists yell foul

New Delhi, 27 Dec : .The A&N Islands Pollution Control Committee issued a notice to hold a public hearing on the Niti Aayog-pushed Great Nicobar Project, which is worth Rs 72,000 crore.

 A&n Islands Will Hold A Public Hearing On Rs 72k Cr Project; Environmentalis-TeluguStop.com

An environmentalist called it a “monumental folly”, and “the cost paid for which can’t even be understood”.
Public hearings would take place for the “Holistic Development of Great Nicobar Island” project.

This includes integration of transshipment terminal, international airport, township, and area development.It also contains 450 MVA and a solar-based power station.

On January 26, the public hearing will be held.The administration asked for comments and objections from the public.

According to a Sunday notice, the public hearing will be held on January 26th.

Two meetings were held quickly in April and March earlier in the year.

The Environment Appraisal Committee of Climate Change (EAC Infrastructure-I) of the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change “recommended” this project for grant of terms of refer (TOR), which will allow the undertaking of environmental impact assessment studies (EIA).

Pankaj Sekhsaria is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas and Associate Faculty at the Centre for Policy Studies, IIT-Bombay.

He also belongs to the Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group.

This report documented how fragile the islands are ecologically and also “how badly the government wants to destroy them”.

The following are the major developments in relation to the project: the January 2021 de-notification by the Galathea Bay Wildlife Sanctuary to locate the port, the January 2021 notification of an ‘zero extent ecosensitive area (ESZ), also of Galathea National Park, to make the low-lying coast available for projects, the March 2021 release of the prefeasibility document titled Holistic Development Of Great Nicobar Island At Andaman And Nicobar Islands’, which was prepared in September 2020, and the committees to de-notifications to assist with legal and regulatory processes and to ease the implementation of these plans.

The Andaman-Nicobar Island System is at an extremely fragile and sensitive intersection of socio-cultural, ecological and geological factors.

NITI Aayog’s Great Nicobar Plan is completely ignorant of all these realities, even though it pursues an entirely illusory agenda for economic growth.He wrote that it would be to continue a massive folly, the cost of which is not even comprehendable.

We still do not have the EIA report.He stated that the links that were mentioned didn’t contain any information about the project or an EIA report.

The notice in newspapers stated that the EIA could be obtained at several offices in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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