{"id":414348,"date":"2021-05-11T10:35:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T05:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=414348"},"modified":"2021-05-11T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T06:09:30","slug":"panel-raises-concerns-over-andaman-water-aerodrome-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/panel-raises-concerns-over-andaman-water-aerodrome-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel raises concerns over Andaman water aerodrome project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union environment ministry\u2019s expert appraisal committee (EAC) has raised several concerns about the environmental impact of constructing a water aerodrome at Swaraj Island, formerly Havelock Island, in Andaman and Nicobar. <\/p>\n<p>The aim of the project, part of the Centre\u2019s Udan scheme (for regional airport development), is to connect remote areas of the island to Port Blair to promote tourism \u201cresulting in growth in economic condition,\u201d the minutes of the EAC meeting held on April 12 and published earlier this month stated.<\/p>\n<p>But the aerodrome will involve the loss of 3,500 sq m of forest land which has been transferred to Andaman and Nicobar Islands Integrated Development Corporation Ltd (ANIIDCO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union environment ministry\u2019s expert appraisal committee (EAC) has raised several concerns about the environmental impact of constructing a water aerodrome at Swaraj Island, formerly Havelock Island, in Andaman and Nicobar. The aim of the project, part of the Centre\u2019s Udan scheme (for regional airport development), is to connect remote areas of the island to Port Blair to promote tourism \u201cresulting in growth in economic condition,\u201d the minutes of the EAC meeting held on April 12 and published earlier this month stated. But the aerodrome will involve the loss of 3,500 sq m of forest land which has been transferred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}