NITI Aayog’s plan ‘Sustainable Development of Little Andaman Island - Vision Document’

Report Published  by         :  NITI Aayog
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​NITI Aayog’s plan ‘Sustainable Development of Little Andaman Island - Vision Document’, for the sustainable and holistic development of the 680 sq km, fragile Little Andaman Island in the Andaman and Nicobar group. This will be done by building a new greenfield coastal city there, that will be developed as a free trade zone and will compete with Singapore and Hong Kong.
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Three zones
The NITI Aayog’s plan proposed three zones.

• Zone 1 — spread over 102 sq km along the east coast of Little Andaman — will be the financial district and medi city and will include an aerocity, and a tourism and hospital district.
•  Zone 2 — Spread over 85 sq km of pristine forest, the leisure zone, will have a film city, a residential district and a tourism SEZ.
• Zone 3 — will be a nature zone on 52 sq km of pristine forest. further categorised into three districts: an exclusive forest resort, a nature healing district and a nature retreat.