GUWAHATI, Jan 19 – Voluntary organisation Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) today alleged that the State Government has been deliberately ignoring the experienced ecologists, social scientists and experts on fields connected with the matter while inviting the people for discussion on the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Power Project (LSHEP).

GUWAHATI: Highlighting the grim situation in the north bank of the State where the public has resorted to massive rallies in protest against the construction of the mega hydel power project at Gerukamukh, the State Opposition today brought an adjournment motion on the issue on the first day of the winter session of the Assam Assembly.

From 2014, Madhya Pradesh will start getting 105 MW power from North Lakhimpur, located on the border of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, as the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) is coming up with a mega project there.

Madhya Pradesh Power Trading Company Ltd (MPPTCL) signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with NHPC yesterday to source 105 MW energy from August 2014, official sources said here today.

The NHPC project is coming up at Subansiri river lower part, they said.

NORTH LAKHIMPUR, Dec 16 – The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) and several other organisations opposing the construction of the mega dam over river Subansiri in Gerukamukh today blocked vehilces carrying construction materials to the NHPC worksite on the outskirts of North Lakhimpur.

Assam government today announced that there was scope for negotiation with persons and organisations opposing construction of a mega dam upstream of Brahmaputra river, reports PTI.

“The government is prepared to talk to anyone on the issue. We love our state as much as they do,” State Power Minister Pradyut Bordoloi told reporters here.

The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) and several other organizations opposing the construction of a mega dam over river Subansiri in Gerukamukh have set December 16, as deadline before NHPC to return the turbine it had brought up to North Lakhimpur or else they would face a mass blockade of supplies.

This was stated by Akhil Gogoi, leader of the KMSS, along with leaders of other agitating organizations in a joint press meet in North Lakhimpur today.

NEW DELHI, Dec 12 – Even as the agitation against the Subansiri Hydroelectric Project gathers momentum, Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) of two hydro power projects in Assam were turned down by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) albeit on non-environmental ground.
Two Detailed Project Reports are currently under examination in CEA. However, the DPRs of 150 MW Lower Kopili and 60 MW Karbi Langpi were returned by CEA due to inadequate geological investigation and non-up grade of hydrology in case of Lower Kopili Hydroelectric Project.

GUWAHATI, Sept 28 – Peculiar geo-morphological condition of the Himalayan foothill areas have made the Dhemaji district rivers deposit sand, and, in some cases some amounts of silt, on their beds. Thus, they have developed the tendency to change their course said the Dhemaji district engineers of the Water Resources Department (WRD).

Nearly two lakh persons have been affected by the flood that has hit Assam's twin districts of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji.
200 villages inundated
Four people have lost their lives so far in the flood that has inundated nearly 200 villages in the worst-affected Jonai sub division, official sources said here on Sunday.
The Lakhimpur and Dhemaji district administrations have pressed into service motor

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today staged a massive protest meeting at Gerukamukh demanding a halt to construction of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project at Gerukamukh.

The protest meeting which was attended by several State-level leaders of BJP, besides the former president of the party Rajnath Singh, was participated by more than seven thousand people coming from different parts of