Remote, surprisingly beautiful and lymph considered the focus of news reports in recent months of Great Nicobar Island, after two decades, when the 2004 tsunami destroyed life and changed its beach. This time, it is a man-made wave of development that is attracting attention: in particular, schemes under the Great Nicobar Island Development Project, which has one outlay. Launched in 81,000 crores and 2021.
Infra Work is proceeding on a trans-showing port, an international airport, power plants, tourism facilities and a township, where hundreds of thousands of people are expected to settle. The project includes 160-class-kamie, including 130-class km tropical rainfall land, homes for those whose life is complicated complicated to many species of plant and animal life. Environmentalist, Climate activist And even novelist Amitav Ghosh described it as ‘Ecoside’.
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India’s biodiversity is like a miraculous quilt of beauty and the great Nicobar is one of our untouched hot-spots. It keeps a series of beaches, mangroves and coastal forests to rivers, lagoon and rainforests, which host an invaluable variety of mammals, birds, reptiles, crustaceans, amphibians, insects and plants-nothing was found anywhere in the world.
This treasure is at risk. The Galathia Bay Wildlife Sanctuary of Isle was de-committed to reduce the construction of the port in January 2021, one of the few nests of nickels, weak and spatial nicobar megapod as well as some nests for the huge leather turtle.
In addition to irreversible ecological disadvantages, our brick-and-mortar infiltration is likely to destroy traditional lifestyle and ancestral land. According to the 2011 census of India, One-Nivas and semi-namine, Shompene is a “particularly weak tribal group” of 229 individuals. It is a small population that is erased by the flu, and, as they are among the world’s last people, who have almost no contact with the outside world, their immunity may prove to be unable to face the influx of outsiders.
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Great Nicobar is also home to Nicobaris, a settled tribe that mostly practices horticulture. For decades, India has respected and preserved the rights of indigenous people isolated indigenous people in its land and way of life, with contacts made on its terms. Not long ago, an American social media affected which tried to film the sentinel on the North Prahari Island was arrested. As yet, ‘Development‘feel so bad.
The strategic value of the archipelago for trade and defense is undisputed, given the Gulf of the Bengal place. The islands are within the near reach of the major Indian and East Asian ports, and can support the purpose of the quad of an independent and open Indo-Pacific.
But Great Nicobar is not just real estate; It is a delicate ecosystem that suffers from low -intensity earthquakes. The impact of the 2004 tsunami has not yet been fully understood, although researchers found that it tilted the archipelago, sinking some dry parts. Is it a good idea to put concrete and steel tons in such a sensitive area?
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This land is not only settled by those who deserve freedom, how they choose, if they choose, they give us a unique opportunity to expand the knowledge front if we go delicately about it.
While the country needs to be developed, we should not keep the details of our development path beyond the investigation of the cause. Steamollers indicate loss of balance, 2,500 km from New Delhi. Our geopolitical purposes can be fulfilled at a very low cost.