📌 Key Highlights & Quick Takeaways:
- Beijing (Strategic Bureau): In the north-eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, located on the border with China, the local people's protest.
- The local tribes have been protesting for the last several days against the proposed 11,200 MW power generation project 'Siang Upper Multipurpose.
- The dam, touted to be India's largest hydropower project, will span three districts of Siang, East Siang and Upper Siang in the state of Arunacha.
Beijing (Strategic Bureau): In the north-eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, located on the border with China, the local people's protest over the construction of the country's largest proposed hydropower project has turned violent for the past several days, after which the situation in the area is tense.
The local tribes have been protesting for the last several days against the proposed 11,200 MW power generation project 'Siang Upper Multipurpose Project' to be built on the Siang River.
The dam, touted to be India's largest hydropower project, will span three districts of Siang, East Siang and Upper Siang in the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Opponents of the project say that if the project goes ahead, it will submerge the lands of local people and force them to evict from their ancestral lands.
