Great Nicobar Project: FAQs

• Great Nicobar Project (GNP) is a ~₹72,000 crore "holistic development" initiative on the southernmost island of the Andaman & Nicobar archipelago, anchored on an International Container Transshipment Port (ICTP) at Galathea Bay, a greenfield international airport, a township, and a 450 MVA gas-solar power plant.
• Pitched as a strategic counter to China's "String of Pearls" and as an instrument of India's Act East policy in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).
• Examinable for its intersection of strategic geography, port-led growth, FRA/PVTG protections (Shompen, Nicobarese), EIA-Forest Clearance regime, and NGT jurisprudence.