Shompen men walk through the forest on the Great Nicobar island. | Still from video produced by Professor Vishvajit Pandya and team for the Andaman and Nicobar administration. The Union government ...

Gokhale said that the issue pertains to Shompen and Nicobarese tribes who were displaced during the 2004 Tsunami. “These are particularly vulnerable tribes with no representation in this House.

Mr. Pandya had submitted a video report to the government panel, recording the objections of the local Shompen and Nicobarese people, the Trinamool MP said. Mr. Oram responded, saying that the ...

These are specific villages where mainly the Shompen and Nicobarese population reside including Chingneh, Kirasis and Kurchinom in Galathea Bay; In Haeng Loi and Pulo Baha in Pemmaya Bay and ...

Gokhale also said there are only 229 members of the Shompen tribe living in the world. Oram said after the Tsunami struck the island, because of low-lying area, several tribals had shifted out.

The authorities have been denying journalists access to the region for years. Plans threaten the Shompen people The ambitious project also puts the Shompen people at risk. This indigenous group ...

Read on. The Union government has denied receiving a video report by anthropologist Vishvajit Pandya that documented opposition from the Indigenous Shompen and Nicobarese communities to the Great ...

These are specific villages where mainly the Shompen and Nicobarese population reside including Chingneh, Kirasis and ...

Oram, however, denied receiving any such report. Although Pandya had submitted his findings—including interviews with the Shompen and Nicobarese tribes—to the island administration, the administration ...

Story continues below this ad On a video report about the Shompen and Nicobarese communities’ opposition, documented by Pandya who was part of the Andaman and Nicobar administration’s committee tasked ...

3. Great Nicobar has two national parks, a biosphere reserve, small populations of the Shompen and Nicobarese tribal peoples, and a few thousand non-tribal settlers. Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve ...