Forest Rights and the Great Nicobar Mega-Project: The case before the Calcutta High Court | Explained News
On May 8, the Calcutta High Court’s Port Blair circuit bench agreed to hear a public interest litigation by former union government secretary Meena Gupta alleging violations of the Forest Rights Act, 2006, while seeking tribal consent for the Great Nicobar infrastructure project. The Union Government and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration had raised…