This study focuses on Social impacts of Chukha Hydro Power on its local community in Chukha, District of Bhutan. It explores the social impact of Chukha Hydropower on the local community in the post commissioned era and it will spell out the multiple areas like Quality of life, Dependent Variable and selected Independent Variables like Housing Security, Electricity Supply, Bank, Education, Hospital, Transportation, Water & Sanitation, Road and Telecommunication positively or negatively impacted by commissioning of Chukha Hydropower Project. Local community strongly agreed that Chukha Hydropower has supplied them with sufficient electricity. Whereas, the local community have not been benefited enough in terms of business and agro-production opportunities. The detailed study on Chukha Hydropower’s social impact has been conducted with the help of exploratory research with the sample size of 115 respondents through structured questionnaires with the help of correlation and regression on the multiple areas as stated above. It is observed that the social impact of Chukha Hydro Power in terms of healthcare service, education, road infrastructure and housing security on the local population is positive but other areas of concern are not too positively impacted as given in the conclusion. This study clearly explores the impact of Chukha Hydropower on the local community by collecting the perspective of local people within the looped jurisdictions through exploratory research and structured questionnaire with sample size of 115 respondents in Chukha district of Bhutan. Pearson correlation test and regression analysis applied to find out the impact on local community using appropriate software.
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