Date: 2025-09-12Category: Not ApplicableState: Union GovernmentCountry: India
PM shares an article on the Great Nicobar Island Project which transforms the region into a major hub of maritime and air connectivity in the Indian Ocean Region
**Summary:**
On September 12, 2025, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) announced the Great Nicobar Island Project. According to the PMO, this project aims to transform the Great Nicobar Island into a major hub for maritime and air connectivity within the Indian Ocean Region. The PMO release, referencing Union Minister Shri Bhupender Yadav, emphasizes the project's strategic, defense, and national importance and highlights it as an example of economic development complementing ecological considerations. The Release ID is 2165915.
Key Entities Referenced
Prime Minister's Office: The office of the Prime Minister of India, responsible for communications related to government activities.
Great Nicobar Island Project: A development project on Great Nicobar Island, intended to transform the region into a major hub of maritime and air connectivity.
Indian Ocean Region: The geographical area encompassing the Indian Ocean and surrounding countries. It is the location where the Great Nicobar Island project aims to establish a major maritime and air connectivity hub.
Narendra Modi: The Prime Minister of India, who shared an article about the Great Nicobar Island Project.
Bhupender Yadav: A Union Minister who posted about the Great Nicobar Island Project on X (formerly Twitter).
Great Nicobar Island: An island in the Nicobar Islands, India, which is the location of the Great Nicobar Island Project.
Prime Minister's Office
PM shares an article on the Great Nicobar Island
Project which transforms the region into a major hub
of maritime and air connectivity in the Indian Ocean
Region
Posted On: 12 SEP 2025 1:02PM by PIB Delhi
The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today shared an article explaining the Great Nicobar Island Project,
which is of strategic, defence and national importance, transforms the region into a major hub of maritime and
air connectivity in the Indian Ocean Region.
Responding to a post by Union Minister Shri Bhupender Yadav on X, the PM said:
“Union Minister Shri @byadavbjp explains that the Great Nicobar Island Project, which is of strategic,
defence and national importance, transforms the region into a major hub of maritime and air connectivity in
the Indian Ocean Region. He highlights it as a prime example of economy and ecology complementing each
other.”
Union Minister Shri @byadavbjp explains that the Great Nicobar Island Project, which is of
strategic, defence and national importance, transforms the region into a major hub of maritime and
air connectivity in the Indian Ocean Region. He highlights it as a prime example of…
https://t.co/dgoPUHy2qa
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) September 12, 2025
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(Release ID: 2165915)