Itanagar: The Arunachal Pradesh unit of NCP has urged the state government and its Assam counterpart to complete the 2,000 mega watt Lower Subansiri Hydropower Project (LSHP) at Gerukamukh under military protection.
Criticising the anti-dam lobbies in Assam, NCP state president Kahfa Bengia in a statement said such agitations were detrimental to both Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
The project even after completion of 65 per cent of its work has been caught in anti-dam movement causing inordinate delay to its completion.
Claiming that more than 90 per cent of the firms with whom the Arunachal Pradesh government has entered into memorandum of agreements (MoAs) on BOOT (build, own, operate and transfer) basis were either missing from the project sites or were playing wait-and-watch politics, Bengia urged the state government to cancel the MoAs it signed with ‘non-serious’ private power developers.
Even in areas where the land acquisition process was completed the actual works on the sites are yet to start, the party stated adding that in many cases the employed youths were either removed without prior notice or are still waiting for their wages to be cleared.
“Readymade excuses like delay in central clearances, non-achievement of financial closure, etc, are simply not going down well with the people,” the party claimed.
It said MoAs with defaulting companies should be cancelled and transferred to public sector undertakings like NEEPCO. (PTI)