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The Congress enactment connected Saturday (April 4, 2026) targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union authorities implicit a caller draught program to “relocate” Nicobarese families affected by the Centre’s ₹92,000-crore Great Nicobar Island mega-infrastructure project, with enactment person Jairam Ramesh saying, “The bulldozer moves connected unmindful of the concerns of the section communities.”
In a societal media post, citing The Hindu’s study connected the above-mentioned plan, which has caused disorder and anxiousness among locals, the Congress MP and wide caput in-charge of communications, Mr. Ramesh, said that the Centre’s past claims of the task not disturbing oregon displacing section tribes were “clearly a lie”.
The Hindu reported connected Saturday (April 4, 2026) that the territory medication had prepared a draught relocation program for section communities affected by the task connected Great Nicobar Island, and was pushing to finalise this draught with the Centre’s lawyers having told the Calcutta High Court that it would “demonstrate” consent of tribals successful 15 days’ time.
The project, which was granted Stage-I clearance successful 2022, volition see a transhipment port, an airport, a powerfulness plant, and a township.
Violation of rights
However, the project’s clearances person been challenged earlier a Bench of the Calcutta High Court, implicit alleged violations of consent procedures and section tribes’ wood rights.
Referring to the mode the task is progressing, Mr. Ramesh, connected Saturday (April 4, 2026), said, “The bulldozer moves connected unmindful of the concerns of the section communities. But determination is simply a cardinal contradiction here: the [Narendra] Modi Govt. claims that the Great Nicobar infra task volition not disturb oregon displace tribes—then wherefore a relocation plan? Clearly the assertion is simply a lie.”
The draught plan’s details connected wherever the relocation volition instrumentality spot and who volition beryllium relocated has created disorder among the assemblage members successful Great Nicobar, who person been demanding to instrumentality to their ancestral wood lands connected the westbound coast, from wherever they had been displaced by the 2004 tsunami.
