NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday said the present design of the Great Nicobar Island infrastructure project "endangers ecology" in a needlessly unacceptable manner.
Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh on X cited the views of former Chief of Navy Admiral Arun Prakash, who has stated that it is both desirable and possible to bolster security without harming ecology.
Sharing a report on Prakash's remarks, Ramesh said on X, "These views on the very controversial Greater Nicobar Integrated Development Project expressed by the former Chief of the Indian Navy, Admiral Arun Prakash, who has served in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands merits serious attention.
The present design of the project being pushed through by the "non-biological PM" endangers ecology in a needlessly unacceptable manner, added Ramesh.
The Congress general secretary also shared the views of a professional Nicobarese anthropologist Anstice Justin on this project and claimed that it is a "recipe for ecological and humanitarian disaster".