The Himachal government has notified that the 1% free power to be made available for ‘local area development’ by hydropower producers would be distributed as annual cash transfers to ‘project-affected’ families.
Is it trying to buy people’s silence in the face of increasing community opposition to hydroelectric projects? Read Article
Abstract The dramatic unfolding of the Joshimath crisis in Uttarakhand, India, has brought the world’s attention once again to the...
Many families who are still landless cannot even buy land because of the state’s policy Article written by Himshi Singh & Prakash...
Indigenous communities in the two ecologically fragile Himalayan States are routinely excluded from this narrative that fuels reckless...
Himachal Pradesh needs a policy and governance overhaul that prioritizes environmental sustainability and local communities Article...
When we arrived at the Aima village ‘waste processing plant’, next to Neugal khad (stream), near Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, there had...
