Hydel Plan On Sikkim ‘Holy River’ Hit

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 30 No. 12, December 2010

 

“If the proposals are cleared, we will oppose them with all our might," said an activist of the Sikkim Bhutia Lepcha Apex Committee, which is spearheading the protests.

 

The committee has twice written to the Union environment and forests minister, Jairam Ramesh, asking him to scrap the projects planned on the Rathong Cho river, which local populations in western Sikkim consider holy. Read the full report here.

 

Source: Jayanta Basu, The Telegraph, Calcutta.

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