The KMSS has said that the experts' committee on Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border is divided in its opinion on the dam - while the local experts are against the dam with its present blueprint, the experts deputed by the Centre are in favour of going ahead with the construction of the dam. The KMSS said the experts' committee, which had been formed at the tripartite meeting held by the Union Power Ministry on December 11, 2014 in New Delhi, gave a fractured opinion in their reports to the Union ministry. "What's significance is that the eight experts have been divided into two coteries, each comprising four experts. While the four members of Assam, who submitted their report to the Union ministry on May 9, said that the dam is not possible without bringing any changes in the blueprint and without going for a geological study, the experts deputy by the Centre who submitted their report on May 11 favoured the NHPC's stand for going ahead with the dam," the KMSS leaders said. According the KMSS, the experts' committee was formed for the study of safety of the dam and its downstream effects. The terms of references of the project oversight committee, according to the KMSS, are study of safety measures and downstream effects as stated by the reports submitted by the experts of Assam and the Thatte Reddy technical committee earlier, and holding discussion with national and international experts, publication of the report within three months and resumption of the dam works. The KMSS leaders said that they were always opposing the decisions taken and informed the people of Assam that the Union ministry was out to go ahead with the dam by hook or by crook.