The power of hydropower in north-eastern India. Opportunities and challenges.

October 2015. This research explores the dynamics of local politics surrounding large hydro-power dam projects in the north-eastern border state of Arunachal Pradesh in Himalayan India. Large dams came back on the Indian development agenda as hydropower projects after a decade-long “break” following grassroots contestations over the huge multipurpose dam projects in the 1980-90s.

Read the<link fileadmin downloads zef_news zefnews_32_web_hydropower_p6.pdf download file> full article in <link fileadmin downloads zef_news zef_news_32_web_n.pdf download file>ZEF news no. 32 by Mibi Ete.