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Changlang, Arunanchal Pradesh

Not a Scheduled AreaCensus 2011 district code 253
  1. 10 Sept 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedOnshore Oil & Gas drilling at Loc. KHAS

Dated by the portal's own appraisal history, converted to India Standard Time; a proposal with no recorded history appears on its register submission date.

Other clearances these proposals declare

Forest land diversion declared
6
Forest land sought for diversion
29 ha
Wildlife board recommendation declared
0
In or near a protected area
0
In an eco-sensitive zone
1

These counts are taken from the application forms of the 9 of 9 proposals naming this district whose forms have been read for these questions. In 2 of those forms at least one question was left blank, and a blank answer is counted as unknown. The forest area is the area stated for forest clearance, with each forest proposal counted once, in the district where its project is primarily sited.

Proposals naming this district
9
Category A proposals
2
Families declared displaced
52
Families declared affected
52

Displacement figures are the proponents’ own declarations. A project sited across several districts declares one figure for the whole project, and that figure is counted once, in the district where the project is primarily sited.

Fifth Schedule status

Not within a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area

No Presidential Order under paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule declares any Scheduled Area in Arunanchal Pradesh, so no part of this district is one and PESA does not apply. A different protection does apply here: the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation 1873 (Inner Line) and State land law; the Fifth Schedule has never been extended to it.

OrderMinistry of Tribal Affairs, Scheduled Areas declared under paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution

What the record shows

  • The Scheduled Tribe share here, 36.4%, is at least double the national figure of 8.55%.

  • Literacy was 59.8% in 2011 against 72.98% nationally, so notices and documents issued in writing during a consultation may reach fewer people here.

  • Applicants for projects sited mainly in this district have declared 52 families to be displaced. The figure comes from their applications, and we have not verified it.

Each of these observations appears when a fixed rule is met by the figures on this page, so the same figures always give the same sentences. None of them is a view on whether a project should go ahead.

Who lives there

Figures from Census 2011, each compared with the all-India value computed on the same definition.

Total population
1,48,226
Households
29,521
Average household size
5.02
0.17 above India's 4.85India
Scheduled Tribe share of population
36.4%
27.8 points above IndiaIndia
Scheduled Caste share of population
0.0%
16.6 points below IndiaIndia
Children aged 0-6
17.5%
3.9 points above IndiaIndia
Literacy rate
59.8%
13.2 points below IndiaIndia
Sex ratio
926
16.3 below India's 942.6India

What they live on

How the district's workers earn a living, from Census 2011. The land-dependent share counts cultivators and agricultural labourers as a share of all workers, and it is the group most directly affected when land is acquired.

Total workers
62,966
Work participation rate
42.5%
2.7 points above IndiaIndia
Workers dependent on land
69.8%
15.2 points above IndiaIndia
Cultivators
63.1%
38.5 points above IndiaIndia
Agricultural labourers
6.7%
23.2 points below IndiaIndia
Marginal workers
19.4%
5.4 points below IndiaIndia
Household industry workers
0.8%
3.0 points below IndiaIndia

How households live

Land, income and work among rural households, from the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011, which recorded these where the population census did not. Only the survey's rural part is used here, so urban households do not appear.

Rural households owning land
54.3%
8.2 points above IndiaIndia

The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.

Rural households whose highest earner makes over ₹5,000 a month
22.8%
1.5 points below IndiaIndia

The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.

Rural households living mainly on manual casual labour
9.6%
42.2 points below IndiaIndia

The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.

Rural households with a salaried member
13.4%
5.1 points above IndiaIndia

The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.

When these were filed

Each proposal is dated by the first step in its appraisal history, the dated record of steps the portal keeps for it.

2023-Q42026-Q3

The timeline counts 8 of the 9 proposals here. The first filing date comes from each proposal's appraisal history, and we have not yet read it for the other 1, so they are left out. Most of them are older proposals, so the early part of the timeline undercounts what was filed then. The register itself records a date for each of them; the gap is in our copy of the histories.

Hatched columns undercount, so they cannot be compared with solid ones. One of them covers a period for which we have read few filing dates so far, and it counts only the proposals whose date we have.

What kind of projects these are

The proposals naming this district, grouped by the sector each was filed under.

  • Industrial Projects - 2 77.8%
  • Coal Mining 11.1%
  • Industrial Projects - 1 11.1%

The four largest sectors are shown by name and the rest are grouped as Other.

What is proposed here

These are the proposals in the national environmental clearance register whose application names a site in this district, newest first. A project with sites in several districts appears under each of them.

  1. Category B2Proposal Accepted and Referred to SEAC2026-08-03

    Onshore Oil & Gas drilling of one well at Loc. KHAT under Ningru Extension PML, Changalang District, Arunachal Pradesh

    OIL INDIA LTD · Industrial Projects - 2

  2. Category AForwarded to MS SPCB/PCC by MS2026-06-17declares affected families

    NAMCHIK WEST COAL MINE

    PRA NURAVI COAL MINING PRIVATE LIMITED · Coal Mining

  3. Category B2EC Granted2026-04-22

    Onshore Oil & Gas drilling at Loc. KHAS

    OIL INDIA LIMITED · Industrial Projects - 2

  4. Category B2EC Granted2025-08-14

    Prior Environment Clearance under provision of Schedule 1(b) of EIA notification, 2006 for drilling of 2 (two) nos exploratory wells at JRBA & JRBB along with provision for drilling additional 5 (five) nos. of cluster exploratory wells using the same plinth of JRBA & JRBB in Jairampur Extn PEL Block within the 24.61 Sq.km PEL Block of Oil India Limited falling in Honkap Reserve Forest under Nampong Forest Division, Jairampur, Changlang District, Arunachal Pradesh

    OIL INDIA LIMITED · Industrial Projects - 2

  5. Category B1Proposal returned in present form2025-08-04

    Apply for renewal/ extension of Environmental Clearance

    TANGYAN SIMAI · Industrial Projects - 1

  6. Category B2EC Granted2024-08-26

    Proposed Onshore Oil & Gas Exploration for Loc. OCKA in OALP-I Block AA-ONHP-2017/13 (Chongkham Block) at Namsai district, Arunachal Pradesh

    OIL INDIA LIMITED · Industrial Projects - 2

  7. Category AEC Granted2024-07-25

    Drilling of Development wells (40 Nos.) and Exploratory wells (5 Wells) in the Kharsang Oil Field at District - Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh by M/s. GeoEnpro Petroleum Ltd.

    GEOENPRO PETROLEUM LIMITED · Industrial Projects - 2

  8. Category B2Withdrawal Request Accepted2023-12-06

    Application for Expansion (additional 4 nos. of E&A wells & 4 nos. of EPUs/QPUs) in "Onshore Oil & Gas Exploration, Appraisal & Early Production in AAONHP-2017/3 Hydrocarbon Block”, Tinsukia District, Assam

    M/s Vedanta Limited(Division Cairn Oil & Gas) · Industrial Projects - 2

  9. Category B2EC Granted2023-10-13

    Diversion of 3.33 Ha. of Forest land for drilling at Location KHAR in the Namphur Reserve Forest under Nampong Forest division, Arunachal Pradesh

    OIL INDIA LIMITED · Industrial Projects - 2

All 9 proposals that name this district, newest first.