Upper Siang Hydropower Project:
Locals are protesting against the Upper Siang hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh.
- Upper Siang Hydropower Project is a proposed 11,000-megawatthydropower project on the Siang River in the Upper Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh.
- The Brahmaputra River, which in Arunachal Pradesh is known as the Siang River.
- The area is predominantly inhabited by the Adi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh.
- The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) and the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) have jointly been assigned the task of construction of this project.
- On 30 December 2022, NHPC submitted a pre-feasibility report of the Project, according to which the installed capacity of the project would be 11,000 MW, the reservoir would have a storage capacity of 9 billion cubic metres (BCM) and the estimated cost of the project would be around 1,13,000 crores.
- It is seen as a strategic move to counter China’s hydel projects on the Yarlung Zangbo (Brahmaputra) River, particularly a 60,000 MW ‘super dam’ in Tibet’s Medog county.
