Opinion | Arunachal Dam: Convincing A Tribe, Cracking Down On Foreign-Funded Unrest

There is much soft work to be done in Arunachal before the government moves in brick and concrete for the dam

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India is not new to protests over building dams. From Sardar Sarovar to Subansiri and Tehri to Silent Valley, activists have descended to disrupt dam-building, never mind how economically or strategically critical the project is.

It is Arunachal Pradesh’s turn now.

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The Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP), meant as a necessary downstream buffer against China’s massive 60,000 MW Medog hydropower station on the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, is the latest battlefield for environmental activists, keeping the local Adi tribe on the frontline of resistance.

The Siang Indigenous Farmers’ Forum (SIFF) argues that about 27 villages will get submerged and nearly a lakh people displaced by the 12,500 MW dam project. Arunachal CM Pema Khandu rightly describes it as a ticking “water bomb". Without a storage facility like the Siang dam, Beijing could........

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