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  • The ruling Sikkim Democratic Front has made an electoral promise to implement the...

  • provision for Universal Basic Income or UBI. It is the first regional party to...

  • make such a promise in the poll season. Sitting SDF Lok Sabha MP and...

  • spokesperson of the party PD Rai says, if implemented it would be a game-changer...

  • for the people of Sikkim.

  • Universal Basic Income means universal, which means that...

  • everybody in the state, whoever's a citizen of the state, will be...

  • able to access that. Second, it's an income so we're...

  • not saying it's a grant. It is something which would, for at least...

  • young people, that will be very empowering because they would be able to...

  • leverage this income. For older people, it would be part of a package for...

  • medical expenses and so on and so forth.

  • So, that is why we have thought about doing this over, you know...

  • we'll take a three year period to set it up and also to have discussions...

  • with stakeholders and others. It would include really at the...

  • gram panchayat level and so on and so forth so that everybody's on board. I...

  • mean it's not about squandering away wealth, it is about utilising wealth...

  • ensuring that there is equitable distribution and to in...

  • some ways look at the prosperity angle and give young people a new way of

  • thinking about their future.

  • He says the surplus revenue earned by...

  • the state mainly from its hydro-electric projects would be utilised to create a...

  • corpus to implement Universal Basic Income.

  • Today, we have an installed...

  • capacity, and running, about 2,200 megawatts. We would be...

  • attaining a maximum, I think, of about three and a half thousand megawatts.

  • Hamro Sikkim Party of Bhaichung Bhutia has also now promised to bring UBI to the...

  • people if elected to power. Though Sikkim's hydro-electric projects are less

  • controversial than those in Arunachal Pradesh, the state does have its share of...

  • public grievance over building of dams, particularly from the affected community, the Lepchas.

  • As far as Sikkim's context is concerned, the..

  • issues, at the end-of-day, you have to deliver to the people. How we you going...

  • to deliver that basic income? The government plan would be

  • to generate some kind of resource from the hydroelectric power projects or

  • maybe from organic farming or likewise. But, as we see today itself, it has got a...

  • problem. Government has planned 28 hydel projects in Sikkim. Now,

  • if you see it as of today, say even if you take the example of Teesta Stage III which is...

  • the largest hydel project, 1,200 megawatt, but it's not able to function

  • at optimum level because the government and developers have failed to provide proper

  • transmission line to evacuate the power. Due to this, every day the government of Sikkim...

  • is losing Rs 5 Crore. If you have already lost 5 Cr for the last 2 years,

  • we are not very optimistic that the basic fund for this scheme would be available

  • for the next 10-15 years. Another thing is, of course, per se...

  • it looks good. The government of Sikkim has given jobs to around 20,000 people,

  • new people. One family one job, and then a lot of of...

  • unemployable people are given some kind of job in terms of ad-hoc or muster roll but...

  • now it itself is a huge financial burden. So, if you consider it as...

  • income for the people, it is fine but otherwise, I think the largest chunk of our revenue...

  • from salaries.

  • The concept of actually having a national policy of...

  • having to tap into dams has come in because of the huge power needs of the

  • country. Obviously, the state of Sikkim being placed very well in terms of

  • endowment for hydropower did experience the same kind of push from the

  • Government of India as well and I think we moved into hydropower from that point

  • of view. Now, there are the naysayers as is with every other

  • process and anywhere in the world but Sikkim has managed the Teesta as well as...

  • the Rangit hydropower projects with minimal problems, especially to people...

  • who are living in that particular area and there has been a lot of...

  • compensation that has been given. All the environmental impact assessments etc...

  • or the kind of, you know, getting the consent of the people - all that has...

  • been done but there are definitely small groups of people who have been opposed...

  • to a lot of the dams. Now, we have frozen, in fact there used to be a far greater...

  • number of, I think, projects but we actually dwindled it down to now I think...

  • there will be something in the order of about less than twenty.

  • Sikkim is going to both assembly and parliamentary elections simultaneously...

  • on April 11, and as you've seen in this episode of Sadak se Sansad, the ruling SDF...

  • has promised to bring Universal Basic Income to the people of Sikkim if they...

  • come to power. So, what they are basically talking about is also the surplus...

  • amount that their state is earning through hydropower projects like this...

  • one that you see just below here. It's going to give the, you know they're...

  • going to pass that benefit to these people of the state, to the stakeholders...

  • in a bhagidari fashion, but when we talk to people on the ground they're very...

  • excited about the idea as such but then they also raised certain concerns...

  • Most people don't want to come in front of the camera but what they say is that...

  • their basic concerns are also that a lot of cultivable land has gone into...

  • the construction of these dams and the mainstay of the rural economy...

  • in Sikkim is cardamom cultivation and this is also mainly practiced by the...

  • Lepchas. The area that we are in here is the Lepcha area. Their...

  • main concern is that cultivable land has gone. They have got compensation and...

  • many of them have actually finished the money that they got from the government...

  • but they have not been able to transfer themselves to...

  • another means of livelihood. So, that is a basic concern that we see on the ground

  • and the other thing is also that lot of people have also given land to the Army

  • installations, besides the dam, so the the voice from the ground

  • that we hear is also about naming certain places which are...

  • removing the traditional names and renaming certain places as per...

  • you know the army norms and giving new names to the...

  • areas. So, that is something that local people seem to be not very happy about.

  • As a concept, the UBI system, if it comes into Sikkim, is a good concept,

  • people say, but then they also want these concerns to be addressed by the

  • government.

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