The roads are blocked. The anger is real. And Geku’s message to the government couldn’t be any clearer. As Chief Minister Pema Khandu prepares to visit Boleng in Siang district on September 29 and Yingkiong in Upper Siang district on September 30, the mood in the Siang Valley is anything but welcoming. Villagers in Geku … Read more
The Siang Upper Multipurpose Project has long been a powder keg in Arunachal Pradesh. On Monday, Chief Minister Pema Khandu lit a match. Amid mounting resistance from indigenous communities against pre-feasibility report (PFR) activities for the proposed Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP), Khandu convened a high-stakes consultative meeting in Itanagar — pulling in hundreds of … Read more
The Siang River has flowed through the heart of Arunachal Pradesh for centuries — feeding farms, sustaining cultures, and binding the Adi people to their ancestral land. Now, a proposed mega-dam threatens to bury all of that under hundreds of metres of water. And the people who call this valley home are not going quietly. … Read more
A human rights organisation has done something that rarely happens in Arunachal Pradesh’s development debates — it has openly sided with the people over the project. The Human Rights of Arunachal (HRA) on Thursday threw its weight behind the ongoing protests against the proposed Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP), calling on the state government to … Read more
When the Vice President of India visits your state, you’d expect the principal opposition party to at least get a seat at the table. That didn’t happen in Arunachal Pradesh — and the Congress is furious about it. The Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) came out swinging on September 9, publicly protesting what it called … Read more
When a human rights organisation tells a state government to pause and reconsider, it’s time to pay attention. The Human Rights of Arunachal, better known as HRA, has thrown its weight behind the Adi community’s growing resistance to the proposed mega hydropower projects along the Siang river belt. In a formal statement issued on Sunday, … Read more
