New Delhi, June 19 -- Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh has raised serious concerns over the Great Nicobar Island Project, terming the environmental impact assessments "demonstrably inadequate."

In a strongly worded letter addressed to Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, Ramesh alleged that the project's clearances fall "woefully short" of the ministry's own guidelines.

"I am sorry to say yet again that the environmental impact assessments of different aspects of the Great Nicobar Island Project are demonstrably inadequate and fall woefully short of guidelines set by the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change itself," Ramesh stated in his letter.

Highlighting a lack of transparency and procedura...