New Delhi: Raising more questions on the Great Nicobar Infrastructure Project, over 70 scientists, conservationists and sociologists on Monday wrote to Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav flagging concerns on the “grave and irreversible negative impacts\" of the controversial project that the government has been pushing.

They charged the Narendra Modi government of being “disingenuous” to invoke national security whenever questions were raised on a developmental project. It also criticised the Centre for allowing a \"handful\" of institutions to carry out “biodiversity monitoring”, though the same institutions drafted “illogical, unscientific and baseless” mitigation strategies.

Faced with criticism on the contentious project, the government in recent months has been defending the

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