Monday, November 21, 2011

ASESEUA extends support to Save Sikkim protest

GANGTOK, 20 Nov: All Sikkim Educated Self-Employed & Unemployed Association [ASESE&UA] has extended its full support to Save Sikkim in their protest against the Tashiding Hydro-Electric Project.
Save Sikkim is an organization formed recently by a group of residents of Yangthang, Tashiding and Yuksam in West Sikkim, to protest against the 97 Mega Watt Tashiding Hydro-Electric Project being undertaken by Shiga Energy Pvt Ltd below Tashiding under Yangthang constituency in West Sikkim.
An ASESE&UA team is also scheduled to visit the project affected areas in West Sikkim at the earliest.
Addressing a press conference today, the ASESE&UA president, Nawin Kiran, mentioned that the ASESE&UA was always against hydel projects in the state. He mentioned that a few hydel projects were enough for a state like Sikkim but thirty hydel projects are too much.
He informed that the members of Save Sikkim also met the association and further expressed his happiness on the participation of young people in protesting the project.
Stating that ASESE&UA would support the organization in every way, Mr Kiran stressed that the “Government has to take the opinion of the affected and local people before starting the project and review its decision on receiving complaints from them”.
He further stressed that it was high time for all organizations protesting hydel-projects across the state to come together to protest these projects more seriously and effectively.
Likewise, other executive members of the association also expressed that it was time for the state government to review and listen to these protests and to address all problems immediately.
The state government has always urged the youth to take up agriculture and horticulture to be self-dependent but if all cultivable land is used for hydel projects then how would that be possible, they asked.
“If the hydel projects are for the people then if the people do not want it then why can’t the government just stop these projects by respecting people’s sentiments,” they further expressed.

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