Latest Nicobar Island Development Project News & Updates

New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) The Congress on Sunday once again opposed the Great Nicobar Island development project, calling the compensatory afforestation argument “bogus” and seeking access to the report of a High-Powered Committee (HPC) set up by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to review the green nod to the project that entails felling of more than seven lakh trees. In a letter to the Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, former Union Minister and Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said, “In the intere…