How would you respond to those, sir, especially in the political circles who say that strategy and defense is a bogey, this is purely a commercial venture, a 72,000 crore rupee commercial project to benefit just one industrialist in our country?

Well, if someone can identify even before a tender or an RFP has been issued as to who's going to be its beneficiary, I think that falls in the gambit of the nation wants to know.

Then they have to come up and say how have they arrived at this formulation.

Even the tender hasn't been floated, the RFP hasn't been floated.

And to the earlier part of your question, you know, multi-modal enterprises of this nature you can't segregate that this is only strategic this is only commercial it is the sum total of what the territory is going to be delivering to you and how it impacts on your comprehensive national park that provides an answer you cannot segregate it silo wise now if you superimpose the significance of our dominating the state of Malacca on to what will happen once this land bridge corridor becomes operational in a very quick time frame the same 10th parallel that I spoke to you about extending it eastwards if you extend that westwards now it passes smack along the 10 degree channel segregating the Andaman group of islands from the Nicobar group smack in the centre so now you are dominating Two features, the Malacca Strait and the 10th channel parallel.

And in effect, you are now that entire traffic between Indo and Pacific has now become a jugular, which not on being severed, on even the slightest pressure being applied there, can cause unbearable pain on both ends.

Many, many.

What will that mean for tourism and diving industry in Andaman and Nicobar?