GUWAHATI: Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AYCP), a youth organisation having strong influence in Brahmaputra Valley of Assam, has vowed to launch a do-or-die agitation to stop construction of the 2000 MW mega dam project at Lower Subansiri by National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) to prevent possible disaster to the state’s ecology and environment in near future.
The AJYCP which sent a delegation to the site of the dam, has alleged that the NHPC had completed about 70 % construction of the main bund in the project defying the restriction imposed by National Green Tribunal (NGT).
The AJYCP stated that the mega dam project, if commissioned,, would pose great threat to Assam’s districts down the stream in case of release of excess water from it besides in the event of natural calamities like mega earthquakes which had occurred in this highly-seismic zone in the past.
The announcement of the AJYCP came a few days after Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity (KMSS), another influential NGO in Assam, announced its plan to launch a fresh agitation from August 31 demanding scrapping of the under-construction 2000 MW Lower Subansiri Hydro-electricity Dam project at Gerukamukh along Assam-Arunachal Pradesh boundary.
The KMSS citing the man-made disaster that has devastated Kerala, demanded that there was no other alternative than to scrape the NHPC’s mega dam project to prevent much greater disaster in Assam in future because of the bog dam.
KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi pointed out that large number of dam projects that were coming up in Arunachal Pradesh pose grave threat to Assam down the stream. He vowed that the KMSS would not rest unless the mega dam project of the NHPC was scrapped.