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The correlation of human rights protection and transboundary infrastructural developmental needs have been perceived to conflict with one other; and this is reflected particularly through the large-scale infrastructure developmental projects. In the recent few years, the development perspective has shifted towards sustainable development and is inclusive of human rights and environment protection while promoting infrastructure development. It calls for adoption of a comprehensive approach to include sustainable development.
The present dissertation work intends to study the Trilateral Highway (TH), renewed in 2016 by the Government of India, named the Trilateral Highway India-Myanmar-Thailand (TH- IMT), and to analyse its impact on the transboundary human rights and the environmental protection measures to be adopted for the area. In efforts to prevent the impact on the local community residing in the area, by ensuring sustainable development practices. By utilizing the resources sustainably, the impact on human life can be regulated while infrastructural development takes place. The same can be assessed through the various agreements made between the countries over the years that are studied to analyse the mitigation measures adopted under each segment of the project along with the proposed environmental management plans. These agreements shall reflect the extent of reconciliation possible between the otherwise conflicting aspects and how development projects could be made sustainable to ens.
This dissertation would analyse the linkages between development and protection of ecosystem; and shall also analyse the exiting legal framework in dealing with the potential economic and environmental outcomes of the TH-IMT. The study is essential in grasping not just a generic understanding that is meagerly known but providing a specific and in-depth analysis of the infrastructure project of this magnitude. To bridge the gap between development and protection of ecosystem that is lacking with respect to the Asian continent.
The work would be purely doctrinal in methodology, sourcing data from the available reports on the official international organizations‟ websites and existing literature around policy, legal and scientific aspects relating to the subject.
