Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh has formally requested Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav to make public the report from the High-Powered Committee (HPC) that reviewed the Great Nicobar Project's environmental clearances. Ramesh criticized the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for being inadequate and not meeting legal requirements, claiming it was based on a limited study conducted over just three months. He highlighted that the primary ecological surveys were completed in an unreasonably short time, raising concerns about the thoroughness of the assessments. Ramesh's call for transparency follows a statement from the Union government asserting that the ecological impacts had been comprehensively assessed. He argued that if other project documents were public, then the HPC report should also be disclosed to promote good governance and informed public debate. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) had previously ruled that it found no grounds to interfere with the project's clearances based on the HPC report, which remains confidential.