A six-member National Green Tribunal (NGT) special bench ruled on Monday that it did not find “any good ground” to interfere in the environmental clearance accorded to the Rs 81,000-crore Great Nicobar mega infrastructure project as there were “adequate safeguards” in the project’s environmental clearance. The tribunal acknowledged that neither the project’s strategic importance could be denied, nor conditions of the Island Coastal Regulation Zone (ICRZ) notification be ignored. It also assessed whether or not conditions imposed in the project’s 2022 environmental clearance – to mitigate its impacts – were met. The committee was formed in compliance with the NGT’s April 2023 order, to revisit some unanswered issues in the project’s environmental clearance. Story continues below this adThe NGT said in its order that it found “adequate safeguards” within the environmental clearance and did not find any good ground to interfere in the project’s clearance.

Source: Indian Express February 17, 2026 01:37 UTC