Great Nicobar Island project and tribal-cultural rights
Quick dive
- The proposed Great Nicobar project is valued at about ₹72,000 crore and has strategic as well as infrastructure objectives.
- The Centre told the Supreme Court that the endangered Shompen tribe would not lose habitation because of the project.
- The National Green Tribunal had upheld the environmental clearance subject to conditions and a high-powered committee examining specified ecological impacts.
- The Calcutta High Court is hearing challenges invoking the Forest Rights Act, 2006, environmental concerns and protection of tribal ways of life.
- exam_relevance: tests the exact conflict between strategic infrastructure, environmental clearance, Forest Rights Act safeguards and constitutional protection of tribal culture; it echoes recurring UPSC questions on vulnerable tribal groups, PVTGs and environmental governance.
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