Fish stocks have depleted due to water contamination while crops are struggling to grow in the river basin in North Bengal due to the altered landscape.
North East Human Rights urges the government to reconsider and halt dam projects in Arunachal Pradesh, citing safety risks and the recent Chungthang dam breach in Sikkim.
After the flash flood in the Teesta on October 4 last year, connectivity between parts of north Sikkim in Mangan district of the Himalayan state and the Indian mainland snapped as over a dozen bridges on the river were swept away in the district