The Tipaimukh question: why a dam on the Barak keeps resurfacing in regional politics
A decade after it was shelved, the proposed dam on the Barak is back in the headlines — and the objections are familiar.
The proposed Tipaimukh dam on the Barak river has resurfaced in regional politics, a decade after the project was shelved amid protests from Manipur and objections from Bangladesh downstream.
Supporters argue the region’s power deficit demands the project; opponents cite displacement, ecological damage and the unresolved politics of the river’s flow.
For the villages of Churachandpur, the dam is not an abstraction — it is the river they fish, bathe in and remember.