Official suggests plan for project-affected people
Project affected people should get equity share of any hydro power project to get a permanent income from the project for their sustenance, newly-appointed chairman of the Arunachal Pradesh Hydro Power Development Corporation limited T G Rinpoche ...
By PTI |
ITANAGAR: Project affected people should get equity share of any hydro power project to get a permanent income from the project for their sustenance, newly-appointed chairman of the Arunachal Pradesh Hydro Power Development Corporation limited T G Rinpoche said on Friday.
Rinpoche, a Buddhist monk-turned-politician representing Lumla assembly constituency in Tawang district on the Sino-India border, told a press conference that this "middle path" should be incorporated in the power development policy to secure the cooperation of the people by associating them with the projects as partners.
He criticised former chief minister Gegong Apang for signing MoU’s and MoA’s with CPSU and private companies last year for development of nearly 20,000mw hydro power in the tribal state without taking the representatives of the project affected people into confidence.
Arunachal being a tribal state, all the ownership rights of natural resources including water and forest rests with tribal communities and it was a mistake not to include the representatives of the communities as signatories, he said.
The PAP representatives yesterday submitted a memorandum to the new chief minister Dorjee Khandu, who also holds the Power portfolio to give 25 per cent equity share of the 1500nw project being developed by NHPC on Tawang-Chu river and another 300 mw project being developed by a private company Nyamjang-Chu in Lumla.
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