India, April 23 -- Calculationby project developer of the area that will remain protected as tribal reserve 'flawed', they write

A group of experts have written to the National Commission of Scheduled Tribes (NCST) highlighting how the Great Nicobar Project will be harmful for the region's indigenous population.

More than half of the area of the Rs 72,000 crore 'Great Nicobar Project' planned in the Great Nicobar Island lies over the Tribal Reserve Area, they pointed out. The riparian and forested parts of the area are currently in use by the forest dwelling particularly vulnerable tribal group, the Shompen, the group of anthropologists, social scientists, environmentalists and scholars of tribal studies added.

The diversion of such ar...