Lohit Sharma | Countercurrents

Opposition to large-scale dam construction in Arunachal Pradesh has been a decades-long movement driven by indigenous communities and environmentalists, centering on concerns regarding displacement, cultural erosion, ecological destruction, seismic risks, and the absence of “Free, Prior, and Informed Consent” (FPIC) procedures. Driven by state-level policies aimed at harnessing massive hydroelectric potential, formal proposals proliferated between […]