A Decade After SC Order, Govt Fails To Shut Andaman Road
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 6,
June 2011
The road, which cuts through the heart of the reserve of the aborigines' community land, was ordered shut in accordance with the Shekhar Singh report. The apex court had passed the order way back in 2002.
The committee had recommended, "The Andaman Trunk Road should be closed to all vehicular traffic from Miletilak in south Andaman to the northern boundary of the south Andaman Island." It had also said traffic on the road in middle Andaman up to Kaushalaya Nagar be shut down. It had recommended a time frame of three months to do so while demanding that no person except for the Jarawas living in the reserve should be allowed to enter it by any means unless they are permitted to do so by the government to help the community in development work. Read the full report here.
Source: Nitin Sethi, TNN, New Delhi.
