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.