The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti today raised the mega dam issue of Lower Subansiri Hydro-electric plant in Gerukamukh by saying that political parties supporting the construction of mega dams in Assam would be voted out in the ensuing state Assembly polls early next year.
Voluntary organisation Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) has demanded fresh environmental clearance to the 2000-MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Power Project (LSHEP) and suspension of its construction activities till the project is cleared afresh from environment point of view.
The voluntary organisation has made this plea in a letter to the chairman of the Expert Appraisal Committee of the
The State Government is in no way going to surrender the issue of safety of the State and its people as far as the mega hydel power projects are concerned. The Power Department has asked the NHPC Ltd to engage even the foreign firms of international repute to study the location and impacts, etc, of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Power Project (LSHEP).
GUWAHATI, Oct 14: The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) has threatened to impose economic blockade on Arunachal Pradesh, stop the transmission line of the Lower Subansiri hydel project and launch a two-month-long agitation if the Centre does not take a call to cancel the mega dam programmes in the Northeast without further delay.
