This is significant in light of the minutes of the latest meeting of the committee overseeing the implementation of biodiversity-related matters in the Great Nicobar megaproject. First, multiple independent experts have questioned the scientific validity and viability of the very idea of coral translocation. What happened in less than two years that coral reefs, which take hundreds of years to grow, vanished completely? “The only way to explain these NCSCM maps is that [they are meant] to make Galathea Bay legally available for the port. Pankaj Sekhsaria is the author/editor of seven books on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, two of the latest being The Great Nicobar Betrayal and Island on Edge: The Great Nicobar Crisis.