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Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh

Scheduled AreaCensus 2011 district code 34
  1. 31 Aug 2026 · Details soughtEssential details suppliedShongtong Karcham HEP 450 MW

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
0
Forest land sought for diversion
None declared
Wildlife board recommendation declared
0
In or near a protected area
0
In an eco-sensitive zone
0

These counts are taken from the application forms of the 1 of 1 proposals naming this district whose forms have been read for these questions. In 1 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
1
Category A proposals
1
Families declared displaced
None declared
Families declared affected
None declared

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

Within a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area

The Order fixes the area by reference to territorial divisions as existing at 21 November 1975. It names this district as a whole.

OrderThe Scheduled Areas (Himachal Pradesh) Order, 1975 · C.O. 102, notified 1975-11-21

What the record shows

  • Half or more of the people counted here in 2011 were Scheduled Tribe: 58.0%, against 8.55% nationally.

  • This district is a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area. Under section 41(3) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR), land here can be acquired only with the prior consent of the Gram Sabha, and the requirement holds even when an acquisition is urgent.

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
84,121
Households
19,976
Average household size
4.21
0.64 below India's 4.85India
Scheduled Tribe share of population
58.0%
49.4 points above IndiaIndia
Scheduled Caste share of population
17.5%
0.9 points above IndiaIndia
Children aged 0-6
9.8%
3.8 points below IndiaIndia
Literacy rate
80.0%
7.0 points above IndiaIndia
Sex ratio
819
123.7 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
56,273
Work participation rate
66.9%
27.1 points above IndiaIndia
Workers dependent on land
63.1%
8.6 points above IndiaIndia
Cultivators
58.6%
34.0 points above IndiaIndia
Agricultural labourers
4.5%
25.4 points below IndiaIndia
Marginal workers
16.9%
7.9 points below IndiaIndia
Household industry workers
1.7%
2.1 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
64.5%
18.3 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
47.5%
23.2 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 living mainly on manual casual labour
6.8%
44.9 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
32.9%
24.6 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.

2026-Q32026-Q3

The timeline counts all 1 proposals here, since each one records the date it was first filed.

What kind of projects these are

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

  • River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects 100%

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 AUnder Examination2026-09-01

    Shongtong Karcham HEP 450 MW

    SHONGTONG KARCHHAM HYDRO ELECTRIC PROJECT, HPPCL · River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects

All 1 proposals that name this district, newest first.