Green approvals paveway for initial work onGreat Nicobar project
Recent approvals issued for the Great Nicobar infrastructure project indicate that preliminary work on the township and the International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) will start soon. In Great Nicobar, the government has planned four projects — International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT), Greenfield International Airport, Gas and Solar based Power Plant and Township; Area Development Projects — for which an area of 166.10 sq km is required. (Manish Chandi) To be sure, the quantum of forest land diversion — 1 square metre (sq m) in one case and 195 sq m in another — is almost insignificant, but the reasons for it, setting up an automatic weather station, and digging bores to test the soil suggest that this is an important step in the construction of he proposed port at Galathea Bay, and a township at Great Nicobar, both under the Holistic Development of Great Nicobar Island Project. Details of the diversions, approved October 15 and May 7, were uploaded on the environment ministry’s Parivesh website. The Automatic Weather Station (AWS) will collect meteorological data necessary …









