Supreme court upholds ban on tourism near Jarawa reserve
The order follows reports of video footage featuring the aboriginals dancing for food in front of foreign tourists and officials on "human safaris"
New Delhi
The Supreme Court has upheld a ban on commercial and tourism-related activities in the habitat of endangered Jarawa tribe of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The order follows reports of video footage featuring the aboriginals dancing for food in front of foreign tourists and officials on "human safaris".
A Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhyaya upheld a five-year-old "unconditional" ban imposed under the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Protection of Aboriginal Tribes) Regulations, 1956. The prohibition entails that neither the administration nor a private individual should enter or carry out any kind of commercial or tourism-related activities up to five km radius around the Jarawa tribal reserve.
