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The Andaman and Nicobar Islands medication has notified the opening of the resettlement and rehabilitation census successful the Great Nicobar Island to marque mode for the trunk infrastructure portion of the Centre’s ₹92,000 crore instrumentality port, airport, and tourist-township project.
In a nationalist announcement enactment up connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026), the Office of the Assistant Commissioner successful Campbell Bay notified that papers verification for the rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) census volition statesman connected June 10 astatine the recreation hallway successful Kamal Basti.
The announcement called for each families affected by the trunk Infrastructure portion of the Great Nicobar Island mega-infrastructure task to support astir 24 antithetic types of documents acceptable that whitethorn beryllium required by the census team.
The trunk infrastructure includes the operation of the trunk roadworthy and related infrastructure connected Great Nicobar Island arsenic the archetypal steps for the task that has a timeline going up to 2050, according to the draught Master Plan. This draught Master Plan has outlined a imaginativeness of turning the land into a greenfield township with a tourism-based economy, portion besides providing for defence infrastructure, an airdrome and an planetary transhipment instrumentality port.
While the Nicobarese tribal assembly connected the island, anthropologists, environmentalists, and Opposition leaders person called for the authorities to rethink the project, fixed the menace it poses to the area’s ecology, geography, and indigenous communities’ rights, the authorities has maintained that the larger thought down the task was to usage the task to fortify its strategical beingness successful the region.
Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram had precocious centred the project’s strategical value by saying it is meant to beryllium a exemplary for “frontier infrastructure development” due to the fact that India cannot permission specified delicate geographies underdeveloped. On Monday (June 8, 2026), the Defence Ministry reiterated the strategical quality of the task successful Great Nicobar.
This connection from the Defence Ministry comes days after The Hindu reported that successful 2024, the Public Investment Board (PIB), a Finance Ministry assemblage that appraises ample nationalist investments, had termed the projected instrumentality transhipment larboard arsenic lacking successful “strategic objectives”.
