Amit Shah, the union’s home minister, declared on Friday that. The Centre’s ₹72,000 crore project for Nicobar Island has made headlines, raising concerns that it might force the native Shompen tribe to relocate.
Shompens are predominantly uncontacted nomadic hunters, with a population of 244 on Nicobar Island. The local administration officials claimed that the project is proposed for an area not inhabited by the Shompens, as they had already moved inside jungles following the 2004 tsunami.
PM Modi named 21 islands of Andaman and Nicobar
Last January, Prime Minister Narendra Modi named 21 large unnamed islands of the UT after Param Vir Chakra awardees on the occasion of Parakram Diwas.
The prime minister also unveiled the model of the National Memorial dedicated to Netaji to be built on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Dweep, earlier known as Ross Islands.
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Source: HT
