The Assam Public Works (APW) made it clear on Monday that it would never compromise with the safety and security of the people of Assam in connection with the construction of the Lower Subansiri Hydel Power Project. The project along the Assam–Arunachal Pradesh border is undertaken by the NHPC. Talking to newsmen in Guwahati on Monday, APW president Abhijit Sarma said: “NHPC authorities may talk loud on the prospects of the Lower Subansiri Project, but we won’t allow them to succeed as the project poses a threat to the people of Assam in the downstream.” Sarma said: “Instead of taking the common path of agitation, we have opted to take the legal course. Nobody, let alone the NHPC, is above the laws of the land. If the NHPC got permission to go ahead with the hydel project from the erstwhile UPA Government, it should give up that hope. Even if NHPC pins hopes on the newly–elected NDA Government at the Centre on the fate of the power project, it should better give up that hopes too. We aren’t going to budge even an inch. We will try our best to get the construction works of the power project stayed in the next hearing of the case.” The next hearing of the case, according to Sarma, is on July 7 next. The case (No. 346/2013 and M.A. 1088/2013) is with the Kolkata bench of the National Green Tribunal.