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Calcutta HC agrees to hear PILs challenging forest rights clearance for Great Nicobar project
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Calcutta HC agrees to hear PILs challenging forest rights clearance for Great Nicobar project

The Indian Express·Nikhil Ghanekar·24 days ago
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The court said the population in Andaman and Nicobar Islands comprises very vulnerable tribal groups having little access to modernity. (File photo) The Calcutta High Court’s circuit bench at Port Blair has agreed to hear three public interest litigations by retired bureaucrat Meena Gupta who has challenged the key clearances and approvals to the Great Nicobar project . One of the PILs by Gupta, who was a Union government Secretary, challenges the validity of proceedings held under the Forest Rights Act-2006. The Centre and the Andaman and Nicobar Island administration had raised preliminary objections regarding maintainability of these petitions on grounds that Gupta was not a resident of Andaman and Nicobar islands and was not authorised by local tribes to file the petitions.…

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