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A port of no return: In Great Nicobar Island, a port was won, a wildlife sanctuary lost Pankaj Sekhsaria  https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/wildlife-sanctuary-great-nicobar-island-9499941/ 

 a category of land labelled by Indian law as coastal regulation zone ( CRZ)IA and second, the environmental clearance granted by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change ( MOEFCC) to a Rs 42,000 crore transshipment port in Great Nicobar Island's Galathea Bay. Coastal areas that are notified as protected areas ( wildlife sanctuary and national park), with mangroves, corals, turtle- nesting beaches, seagrass beds and nesting grounds of birds among others, are included in CRZ- IA . Significantly, they are out of bounds for large construction projects such as the port in question in Great Nicobar Island. The NCSCM,   National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management ( NCSCM) hence, concluded that no part of the project area is falling under CRZ- IA.”

The turtles still nest here, the mangroves still stand, the megapodes still forage and breed here and 20,688 coral colonies still flourish in the adjoining waters. This is still CRZ- IA, but now that the port has been approved, this cannot be IA. It should never have been IA in the first place. The cart was unfortunately before the horse all along but this has been corrected now.

introduction to VS and its work:

1. Alternatives Transformation Format
https://vikalpsangam.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Alternatives-framework-7th-avatar-post-VSCG-for-public-circulation-17.11.2023.pdf

2. Search for Radical Alternatives
https://vikalpsangam.org/wp-content/uploads/migrate/Resources/alternetivesframeworkbookletrevisedfinal1512.pdf

3. People's Manifesto 2024
https://vikalpsangam.org/article/vikalp-sangam-general-assembly-to-release-peoples-manifesto-2024/

4. Reports on Sangams
https://vikalpsangam.org/article/vikalp-sangam-reports/

‘Govt Can’t Have a Hands-off Approach, Must Investigate Hindenburg Allegations’: Policy Body 
https://thewire.in/government/govt-cant-have-a-hands-off-approach-must-investigate-hindenburg-allegations-policy-body The Wire Staff 

 The People’s Commission on Public Sector and Public Services (PCPSPS), a policy consultations body, has questioned the government’s nonchalant attitude towards Hindenburg Research’s latest allegations linking the Adani group with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). “While the SEBI chairman may say that she has disclosed the details of her investments to SEBI, since she had been a full-time member of SEBI from April 2017 to March 2022 and the chairman thereafter, it is the government that would have appointed her to those senior positions. If any disclosure were to be made by her, she ought to have made such a disclosure not only to SEBI but also to the Ministry of Finance.