Teesta V

(Pictures 1 and 2) (right) Teesta V project. 18 km of tunneling being done by the NHPC, to make the river water flow in the hills of Sikkim. This project is near completion. There are 22 hydel power projects planned in Sikkim

(Third picture) (left) (Near the Teesta V project)

Affected Citizens of Teesta

At the Bhutiya-Lepcha house. People are happy to have us around. We start shoot early in the morning in Gangtok. As we have a long, long way to go to North Sikkim. ( These are the people, nearly 200 of them on a relay-hunger strike, protesting the mega-hydel power projects in Sikkim)