Great Nicobar project ‘commercial, not strategic’, Ramesh tells Rajnath in fresh letter
In his latest letter, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh has rejected Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s contention that the Great Nicobar Island Project is a strategically vital national initiative. He reiterated that the scheme is “most fundamentally a commercial enterprise” for which a strategic rationale is being “invented.”Mr. Singh’s reply of July 17, which had itself answered two of the MP’s earlier letters.
- ▪In his latest letter, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh has rejected Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s contention that the Great Nicobar Island Project is a strategically vital national initiative.
- ▪He reiterated that the scheme is “most fundamentally a commercial enterprise” for which a strategic rationale is being “invented.”Mr.
- ▪Singh’s reply of July 17, which had itself answered two of the MP’s earlier letters.
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In his latest letter, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh has rejected Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s contention that the Great Nicobar Island Project is a strategically vital national initiative. He reiterated that the scheme is “most fundamentally a commercial enterprise” for which a strategic rationale is being “invented.”Mr. Ramesh was responding to Mr. Singh’s reply of July 17, which had itself answered two of the MP’s earlier letters. Over the past two years, Mr. Ramesh has written repeatedly on the project to four Union Ministers — Environment, Forests and Climate Change; Tribal Affairs; Ports, Shipping and Waterways; and Defence — three of whom, he said, have replied. Nicobar port has no ‘strategic goals’, Finance Ministry body said in 2024In the July 25 letter, Mr.
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