" In Ladakh, a massive energy project is shrouded in mystery", 1 October 2024

With Ladakh under central rule, locals say their concerns about loss of land and livelihood have gone unheard.

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the Changpas, as the pastoralists are locally known, have been anxious. They fear that their migration routes will be affected by a sprawling 13-gigawatt integrated renewable energy project slated to come up in Pang, which they fear could lead to their pasturelands being fenced off.

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A government firm has been given the responsibility of laying down the transmission lines, but it is not yet clear whether the renewable energy project will be set up by the government or awarded to a private firm.

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In Ladakh, the demand for inclusion in the sixth schedule and the desire to protect ecology are closely linked. Inclusion in the sixth schedule allows a “tribal area” to become an “autonomous district”

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There is a wider anxiety in Ladakh about the Centre pursuing development projects in the ecologically fragile region at the cost of its environment and people.

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The opacity surrounding the renewable energy project and the lack of consultation with locals is contributing to this anxiety, as well as fuelling protest movements in this sensitive border region.

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But while some details are known about the transmission project, no information is publicly available yet about the entity that will develop the solar and wind park itself.