ON June 23, the Lakshadweep Research Collective, along with 60 signatories from the scientific community, wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking his intervention to withdraw the draft Lakshadweep Development Authority Regulation (LDAR) 2021.
According to the letter, the LDAR ignores a scientific understanding of Lakshadweep’s unique geography, ecology, and culture, which places clear limits on developmental possibilities on the islands, lagoons, and reefs, already constrained by climate change.
Local livelihoods and well-being are embedded in current land use, and ocean practices and environmental stewardship will be endangered by the provisions of LDAR, it said. The draft was formulated without consulting local communities about these consequences.
The LDAR violates several regulations as well as international commitments that ensure sustainable development across this fragile archipelago. It embraces a questionable vision of development that is neither sustainable in design nor likely to improve local well-being or safeguard the future habitability of the archipelago, the letter alleged.
Lakshadweep is home to 70,000 people. Population densities are among the highest in the country and basic land and water resources are extremely limited. Between these pressures and the rising threat of climate change, the archipelago and its people face serious existential threats. The plans for development that the LDAR proposes are strangely unheeding of these realities. Any further large-scale infrastructural development will have an ecological and social footprint much too large to sustain and will accelerate the rates of decline.
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