GUWAHATI: A formal meeting between the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) and the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity (KMSS) and the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) on the controversial 2,000MW Lower Subansiri Hydro Electric Power Project was held here today for the first time.

An eleven-member team of the KMSS and the AJYCP met the Ministry of Power’s Joint Secretary cum NHPC CMD G Sai Prasad at a city hotel and held a threadbare discussion on the Lower Subansiri Project for about one and a half hours. Both KMSS and AJYCP also submitted a memorandum to Prasad in this regard.