Legal hurdles cleared in lower Subansiri project

The legal hurdles in the pathway of country's single location biggest power project, lower Subansiri, which is under implementation by NHPC, a CPSU, have been cleared.

Delighted to say that all the legal hurdles in the pathway of country's single location biggest power project, Subansiri , which is under implementation by NHPC, a CPSU, have been cleared.

— R. K. Singh (@RajKSinghIndia) December 2, 2019

The Lower Subansiri project has been stuck for the pasteight years due to various issues. The run-of-the-river project on theSubansiri, a tributary of the Brahmaputra river, is mostly situated inArunachal Pradesh. However, some parts of the submergence area fall in Assam.

Work on the Subansiri project was started in 2006, but itcame to a halt in 2011 due to various issues.

In 2013, the NGT stayed any further work on the project.Thereafter, the project was examined from every angle, be it safety or environmentalissues, by national and international experts.

Finally, the project got clearance from all the agencies, including the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Recently, the NGT also gave its nod for the construction of the project.