Itanagar: In the wake of growing opposition to the public hearing for 3,000 MW Dibang Multipurpose Project (DMP), General Manager of DMP, NHPC Ltd VK Rattan appealed to the people for cooperation in executing the project.

Addressing a meeting at Roing in Lower Dibang Valley district yesterday, Rattan made a fervent appeal to the people. “Please have faith on us. We are here to make people’s life better.”

ITANAGAR: The denizens of Miya village under Lower Subansiri district for whom continuous electric supply was a distant dream, have at last heaved a sigh of relief from erratic power supply with the commissioning of the Pico hydro electric power project.

The two kilowatt project was formally commissioned by Arunachal Pradesh Energy Development Agency (APEDA) director Marki Loya on Saturday last, an official communique informed here today.

Itanagar: The Sulung (Puroik) community residing in East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh at last got a reason to smile with Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh announcing to provide them roofs and hearths for survival.

“The 400 odd Sulung families, which earlier worked as bonded labourers for the Nyishis of the district and other areas, will be provided houses under Indira Awas Yojana (IAY),” the minister announced here today.

With China seemingly on a dam-constructing spree over the Brahmaputra, including one near the point where the river enters India, the government has given the go-ahead for a big hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh to mark India's stake in a river that is in many ways a lifeline of the strategic North-East.

The government has given clearance to the 800 MW Tawang-II hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh this week, paving the way for its implementation, according to officials. The project had been pending clearance a long time.

With China seemingly on a dam–constructing spree over the Brahmaputra, including one near the point where the river enters India, the government has given the go–ahead for a big hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh to mark India’s stake in a river that is in many ways a lifeline of the strategic northeast.

The government has given clearance to the 800 MW Tawang–II hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh this week, paving the way for its implementation, according to officials. The project had been pending clearance a long time.

Within days of China announcing three new hydroelectric projects on the Brahmaputra river and catching India by surprise, the Centre has set the ball rolling to build the strategic Tawang hydroelectric project in Arunachal Pradesh.

The 800-MW power project proposed to be built on the Tawang Chu river has got forest clearance, with the Environment Ministry waiving the cumulative impact assessment for stage-I clearance that it was earlier insisting.

Minister says delay is due to adverse weather and hurdles in land acquisition

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways C.P. Joshi on Tuesday revealed that only 100 km of the 2,400-km Trans-Arunachal Highway announced under the Prime Minister’s package for Arunachal Pradesh had been completed so far. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced the project in Itanagar on January 31, 2008. The Trans-Arunachal (declared as National Highway 229) highway from Tawang to Mahadevpur will pass through Bomdila, Nechipur, Seppa, Sagalee, Ziro, Daporijo, Along, Pasighat, Roing, Teju, Mahadevpur, Namchik, Changlang, Khonsa and Kanubari. The project components include construction of two-lane feeder roads connecting all district headquarters.

Itanagar: Though the construction of Sikkin Kro Mini Hydro Power Project at Bui village in Upper Subansiri district sanctioned four years ago has been officially completed, in reality, the project still has a long way to go before it could be called as being ‘completed’, claimed Bui Youth Welfare Society (BYWS).

According to the NGO, the department concerned has already surveyed the project and verified the work. Further, the sanctioned amount has also been drawn by the contractor looking after the project.

India on Friday said it would look into how much water will be lost from its rivers because of dams being built by China on the Brahmaputra.

“The Ministry of Water Resources will advise us whether these dams are just run–of–the–river dams or storage dams. Our understanding is that these are run–of–the–river dams, in which case we would not be affected,” External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters here. “We also have to get expert advise on what is the downstream impact and how much water is likely to be removed. We have indicated (to China) that we have downstream concerns,” he added.

The Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh on Monday approved the construction of two roads in Arunachal Pradesh - Bameng to Lada (55 kms) and Miao to Vijaynagar (157 kms) - in principl