Dam developments projects in the North Western Himalayas
Journal Title: International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Since early 1970s dam development projects witnessed severe opposition in India. The remote tribal groups and rural population rejected the idea of large scale displacement, land alienation, economic insecurity and endless suffering that came along with ‘development’ projects (Roy 1999, Baviskar 1995). Sensing threats to vast expanse of forest cover and ecological diversity tribals have launched several struggles against the construction giants. In recent past the construction of hydroelectricity projects has faced severe opposition in the tribal regions in Himachal Pradesh. The locals in Kinnaur are facing numerous socio-economic and environmental consequences of these constructions in fragile Himalayan ecology (Asher 2013,2015; Negi 2014 ). The locals have united against future dam constructions in the Sutlej valley. Similarly, more than 30 hydro projects proposed (SANDRP 2016, HIMURJA 2016) in Lahaul & Spiti are also being challenged by the people in Chenab valley. The emerging ecological, socio-cultural, economic, and political implications of these projects have forced people to oppose them. The study has been conducted as a part of my doctoral research conducted in Lahaul & Spiti and Kinnaur districts in Himachal Pradesh. Executing an ethnographic approach the present study is a result of five years of data generation and analysis in the field. The paper summarises the ongoing struggle and diverse implications added with climate change in the rural structures.
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Vijay K Bodh
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