Defending the Great Nicobar Island mega-infrastructure project at the National Green Tribunal on Thursday (October 30, 2025), the Union government argued that it is fully aware of the project’s likely impact on the biodiversity of the surrounding areas, positing that the main issue is whether the government is “alive to this or not”.

Noting that the government considers it its duty to undertake mitigation measures, Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati said that the Centre has mandated conservation and monitoring programmes to run for the next three decades as the project is developed. “We have brought in the best scientific resources available to man this, to take this forward, to carry out research and suggest mitigation, and guide us through the thirty years of this project,” sh

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