Great Nicobar project being bulldozed through despite challenges to clearances in courts: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh

Jairam Ramesh, Secretary General of the Congress, said that the Great Nicobar Mega Infrastructure Project on Sunday, September 14, 2025 was a “bulldozer” by the Modi government despite the challenge of environmental openings in the courts.

Former Environment Minister Ramesh, andaman and Nicobar and Nicobar Islands Integrated Development Corporation continued with the statements they are interested in with the statements of the numbering, cutting, recording and transportation and marking under the project.

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“On August 18, 2022, the Administration of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, controlled by the Ministry of Interior, approved that all individual and community rights were directed to the Great Nicobar Mega Infrastructure Project in accordance with the 2006 Forest Rights Law.

“On December 18, 2024, this approval, both a secretary at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and also a senior authorized authority at the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, a retired work officer Meena Gupta by the Supreme Court of Calcutta said the challenge.

Ramesh claimed that the petition of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Administration did not follow the 2006 Forest Rights Law as a letter and soul, and in fact, the law adopted by the Parliament in December 2006 constitutes a very serious violation.

“Later on February 19, 2025, the Ministry of Union, the Ministry of Union, made a statement at the Calcutta Supreme Court, which states that this should be removed from the list of participants.” He said.

However, on September 8, 2025, the Union’s Ministry of Tribal Affairs claimed that the Ministry of Forestry Rights Law, 2006, the provisions of the Forestry Rights Law and the Littlelers and the Great Nicobar Islands, and the Nicobar Islands Chief Secretary of the Union Region of the Nicobar Islands.

“The Ministry of Union Tribal Affairs, the Calcutta Supreme Court of the Union, even if the difficulty expects a detailed hearing seems to be unstable.” He said.

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Separately, the Environmental openness of the Great Nicobar Mega Infrastructure Project was also challenged in the national green court.

“However, all this did not stop the Integrated Development Corporation of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands” from the expressions of interest to the numbering, deterioration, registration and transportation of the trees and the expressions of interest to marking under the project.

“Galathea Bay has already been declared as a major port. Despite the open violations of the 2006 Forest Rights Law, the Union Environment, Forests and Climate Change, the Modi government finds this ecological disaster of a project.” He said.

Mr. Ramesh said that he had previously brought this issue to the Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change in a series of letters.

The confusion on gaps for Great Nicobar project continues

Previously, the Congress Parliamentary Party President Sonia Gandhi hit the project and claimed that the government mocked the legal, negotiation processes within the scope of the project.

Ms. Gandhi, who calls the Great Nicobar infrastructure project as a “planned false adventure”, said that the island posed an existential danger for domestic tribal communities and that “all legal and negotiating processes” were pushed insensitively by making a mockery “.

This was greeted by Bhupendra Yadav, who claims that all gaps were obtained and defends the project as necessary for the development of the country.