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He also highlighted several procedural and legal failures, most notably the lack of informed consent from the affected tribes.

The GNIDP is a mega infrastructure project planned over 166 sq km area.

The former Union environment minister said that the project will destroy at least 33,000 acres of pristine tropical forest.

The project can potentially result in the genocide of the Shompen, an indigenous community classified as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), Jairam Ramesh claimed.

The party said this was not an ecological update but a “bureaucratic rewrite” designed to bypass environmental safeguards.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has shot off a letter to Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, flagging concerns over the lack of transparency in the Great Nicobar Island project.