Showcause Notice For Adani Group's Mundra Port For Damaging The Coast

The Jairam Ramesh - led environment ministry issued the notice based on the complaint of a local NGO asking the Adani group as to why the clearance for the project should not be cancelled.

The Mundra Port is said to be India's answer to Rotterdam. However the question is at what cost? A year and a half ago, NDTV had exposed how hundreds of mangroves had been hacked and destroyed. Today the scenario is perhaps grimmer, with many more mangroves simply disappearing.

"First they block the creek by building a bund, then they dump dredged sand on the mangroves and claim the land," says Bharat Patel, complainant and environmentalist. Read the full report here.

Source: NDTV Correspondent, NDTV, Mundra.