Claude Arpi | Hydro, rail projects in Tibet a threat to India Published Apr 6, 2021, 7:23 am IST Updated Apr 6, 2021, 7:23 am IST A series of nine hydropower plants in cascade will definitely threaten life across the whole of India’s Northeast region The YarlungTsangpo, which becomes the Siang on entering Arunachal Pradesh and later the Brahmaputra in Assam (and the Meghna in Bangladesh) is one of the most eco-sensitive regions of the planet. (Representational image: AFP) Recent developments not far from the India-China border in Arunachal Pradesh are worrying. On March 29, Dave Petley, pro vice-chancellor (research and innovation) at the University of Sheffield in Britain noted on his blog: “I received an email from GöranEkstrom of Columbia University making a small group of us aware that he had detected, using seismic instruments, a probable large-scale landslide in the vicinity of the YarlungTsangpo in Tibet… an idea of the mass (in this case about 100 million tonnes-- a very large one indeed).”