Author: Sachin Yadav

On 3 May 2026, the Government of India released a document titled Great Nicobar Project: Strategic Importance and Sustainable Development, renewing its case for one of the country’s most ambitious infrastructure and strategic development initiatives. The document outlines New Delhi’s vision of transforming Great Nicobar Island into a major maritime, economic and strategic hub in the Indo-Pacific region. Few places today embody India’s competing priorities as clearly as Great Nicobar. Located at the southernmost tip of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, the island occupies a position of immense strategic value. It lies just 40 nautical miles from the East–West global…