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The Congress connected Friday (January 30, 2026) alleged that the Great Nicobar project is being "bulldozed through" by the Modi government and said it is attempting to bring successful backstage players into the task astatine a clip erstwhile it has refused to disclose cardinal details to the wide nationalist connected the grounds of nationalist security.
Congress wide caput in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh shared connected X a media study which claimed that the Centre is moving connected its ambitious program to make the Galathea Bay International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) project, successful the Andaman and Nicobar islands, successful a public-private concern (PPP) framework.
The erstwhile Environment Minister said the Great Nicobar task is being "bulldozed" done by the Modi authorities adjacent though determination is mounting grounds that it volition person "disastrous ecological impacts".
The task has evoked wide concern, and petitions against the mode successful which biology and different laws person been flouted to propulsion it on are pending successful the Calcutta High Court and the National Green Tribunal, Mr. Ramesh said connected X.
"One of the cardinal reasons for the insistence and persistence of the Modi authorities has present go evident. The Union Ministry of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways has conscionable projected that the Galathea Bay planetary instrumentality transshipment terminal — which is an indispensable portion of the Great Nicobar task - beryllium developed successful public-private concern mode," helium claimed.
"There is perfectly nary enigma of which backstage conglomerate the Ministry has successful caput portion making this recommendation. This conglomerate already owns and operates 13 ports and terminals successful the state isolated from being the biggest mover and shaker successful the firm world. All with the PM's blessings," Mr. Ramesh said.
It is besides notable that the Modi authorities is attempting to bring successful backstage players into the task astatine a clip erstwhile it has refused to disclose cardinal task details to the wide nationalist connected the grounds of nationalist security, helium said.
"It goes to amusement that the deficiency of nationalist transparency is simply a substance of governmental convenience for the Modi Government," Ramesh said.
The Congress alleged past week that the "ecologically disastrous" Great Nicobar task is being bulldozed through, with petitions being heard successful courts and professionals having voiced their concerns, but thing is making a quality to an "indifferent Modi government".
The erstwhile Environment Minister has repeatedly raised the contented successful a bid of letters to the curate for environment, forests and clime change.
Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi had besides slammed the task and alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led authorities has made a mockery of ineligible and deliberative processes nether the project.
Terming the Great Nicobar infrastructure task a "planned misadventure", Mr. Gandhi had said past twelvemonth that it poses an existential information to the island's indigenous tribal communities and is being insensitively pushed through, making a "mockery of each ineligible and deliberative processes".
This was countered by Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav, who had claimed that each clearances were obtained, and defended the task arsenic indispensable for the country's development.
