India's Shang Sanglang Hydropower Project in the southern Tibet region has been progressing with difficulty! Inspired by the Tibetan hydropower station, India also wants to build a hydropower station in the southern Tibet region! The Shang Sanglang Hydropower Project was proposed in 2009. The current plan is a 300-meter high dam, with a water storage capacity of nearly 9 billion cubic meters, which may submerge more than 300 villages of the Adi tribe, and the backwater will reach as far south as Dudong area; the installed capacity is half of the Three Gorges Hydropower Project, i.e., an annual power generation of 50 billion kilowatt-hours, with an estimated cost of 1.13 trillion rupees, approximately 93.8 billion yuan.
The Yarlung Zangbo Hydropower Station is expected to generate 300 billion kilowatt-hours annually, while the Shang Sanglang Hydropower Station in southern Tibet generates only 50 billion kilowatt-hours, showing a significant gap.
Since May, the contractor has forcibly transported equipment into the designated dam site, preparing for surveying, which triggered continuous protests from the local people in the southern Tibet region. Despite the deployment of a large number of Indian central armed police and troops, the Shang Sanglang Hydropower Project still faces huge resistance and difficulties.
The biggest problem for India in building a hydropower station in the southern Tibet region is that India is unwilling to pay compensation. The Shang Sanglang Hydropower Project is expected to submerge houses and land of over 300 villages, but India is not willing to pay a single penny. India lets these people in the southern Tibet region give up their homes on their own and find their own way, trying to let the people who lost their land find their own way without paying any compensation at all.
This kind of India is absolutely unscrupulous. How can you do things like this? It seems that India does not regard the people in the southern Tibet region as its own people. Therefore, the local people in the southern Tibet region are extremely opposed to this. So they have repeatedly formed teams to confront India, resolutely refusing to allow the construction of the dam and even the surveying. In short, the situation remains at an impasse.
Regarding the demands of the people in the southern Tibet region, the Indian government ignores them completely. It doesn't want to compensate a single penny and doesn't go to plead for the local people, wanting to complete the construction plan by itself. The local people's compensation for relocation is basically ignored by India, so the blogger very much understands the feelings of the people in the southern Tibet region.
It should be noted that in order to carry out construction projects and hydropower stations, the survival issues of the upstream residents must be placed first, and they must be resettled and supported, which is the real way to do things. But India refuses to learn from the good ones and pays no attention to anything. Therefore, the people in the southern Tibet region now collectively oppose the construction of the hydropower station in the southern Tibet region, and the project is difficult to proceed.
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