The indigenous Lepchas of Sikkim are using Gandhian methods of protest to prevent construction of hydel projects that will destroy their land and the environment. At a time when politics has been reduced to a numbers game, they know that their minority status is against them. But they are determined to continue the struggle.
distressed over the Sikkim government's "failure' to scrap a series of dams planned on the river Teesta and its tributaries in North Sikkim district, anti-dam activists have launched a second round
Sikkim would soon acquire the distinction of having a hydro power station at an altitude of around 13,000 feet, the highest in the entire country.
The work on this proposed mini hydel power project in Thangu in North Sikkim would start soon with active intervention from the State department of Science & Technology, said the department
