This mega project was proposed over River Rathong Chu, a sacred river to the Sikkimese people as already elaborated in our previous memorandum to your kind honour. It is pertinent to mention here that the Sikkim Chief Minister Shri Pawan Chamling scrapped the earlier Rathong Chu Power Project proposed on the same Rathong Chu in 1997 respecting the religious sentiment of the Sikkimese Buddhist people.
However, we still look forward for the scrapping of two more other mega projects viz. i.e. The 99 MW Ting Ting Hydro Power Project and 97 MW Tashiding Hydro Power Project proposed on the same sacred river of Rathong Chu. Off-late, Sikkim with a mere geographical extension of about 7096 Sq-km. has seen about more than thirty haphazard mega hydro-power projects out of which these three are most detrimental to our Sikkimese Buddhist Lineage and its century old religious sanctity. Though we are not averse to infrastructural and economic development, the same cannot be realised at the very cost of our heritage, lineage and religion. Read the full report here.
Source: Sikkim News.
