Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Aabhijeet Sharma Vs Union of India & Others dated 31/07/2019. The applications seek reconstitution of the Committee constituted by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) in pursuance of order of the Tribunal dated 16.10.2017 for Subansiri Lower …
Guwahati: Reeling under unrelenting blockade of goods, fuels and machinery to its dam site at Gerukamukh along Assam-Arunachal Pradesh boundary by anti-dam protestors in Assam since December 16, the authorities of National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) Limited have urged both the Central and State government of Assam to resolve the …
Guwahati, Jan. 6: The Assam government may be caught in a Catch-22 situation over the anti-dam lobby’s sustained demand to stop work on the Lower Subansiri hydel project, but will not hesitate to crack the whip to maintain order. A government official today said, “We will, however, not crawl. Necessary …
GUWAHATI: After they had succeeded in bringing the construction at the NHPC’s 2000 MW Lower Subansiri Hydro-electric Project at Gerukamukh in Dhemaji district of Assam, the anti-dam brigade comprising several organisations were on Thursday called for negotiation by Assam government in Guwahati. The anti-dam agitation has brought the construction to …
GUWAHATI: The indefinite NH 52 blockade in northern Assam against the NHPC dam at Gerukamukh by Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) and other organisations has been withdrawn on Wednesday after the Assam Government invited the agitating groups for talks. The blockade that was being enforced by KMSS, Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba …
The Assam Government today invited protesters against Lower Subansiri dam project for talks, as a result of which the ongoing agitation was suspended, reports PTI. “We will hold the talks on January 5 at the secretariat with the agitation leaders, civil society and experts,” Government spokesman and Power Minister Pradyut …
GUWAHATI: As the indefinite blockade in northern Assam against the NHPC dam site at Gerukamukh on Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border continued, the government today invited protestors as well as civil society activists, who have raised concerns for the dam, to sit for talks on Thursday. The Group of Ministers (GoM) formed …
- Dispur invites KMSS and other organisations for discussions tomorrow Guwahati, Jan. 3: Dispur this evening formally invited the anti-dam groups for talks on January 5 while issuing a separate public appeal asking them to withdraw their blockade of supplies to the Lower Subansiri hydel project, in a bid to …
Even I support the anti-dam movement and I had taken part in the road blockade for three hours. Does this mean that even I am a Maoist? The government should clearly explain who are the Maoists. It cannot simply try to defame the anti-dam agitators by calling them Maoists. — …
Over two dozen organisations in Assam staged an indefinite blockade on a national highway on Monday as part of campaigns to prevent the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) from constructing a dam and a 2,000-MW project in adjoining Arunachal Pradesh. The protest is being spearheaded by two apex anti-dam groups …
ITANAGAR/LAKHIMPUR: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki on Friday sought intervention of Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in the on-going agitation against 2000 mw Lower Subansiri project at Gerukamukh. The development took place after protesters served a two-day ultimatum on the Assam government to break the impasse and threatened …
Guwahati, Jan. 1: The Assam government’s announcement today of three measures to allay fears about any adverse impact of the Lower Subansiri dam failed to cut ice with the anti-dam brigade, with AASU extending the tenure and area of its blockade of supplies to the dam site. Chief minister Tarun …
GUWAHATI: The Assam government on Friday warned of ‘strongest steps’ against the anti-big dam movement in northern Assam even as a section of agitators declared of a three-day blockade of essential commodities to the NHPC’s Gerukamukh dam site that would run parallel with the ongoing indefinite blockade against raw materials …
ITANAGAR: Arunachal Pradesh government on Wednesday said Lower Subansiri hydro-electric project would be finished in time despite ongoing blockade in neighbouring state of Assam. “Assam government should take measures to control the situation so that people of Arunachal Pradesh are not harassed unnecessarily,” Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki told …
CHAMATA: At the very time when several regional organizations of Assam demonstrated to seek a halt on mega dam construction in the lower Subansiri basin, the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) is on the way to of constructing two electric towers in Pagladiya River here in order to produce current. …
CHAULDHOWA (ASSAM): Police fired in the air and burst teargas shells for the second day here on Tuesday to evict protesters demonstrating against the construction of a hydro-electric project at Lakhimpur, even as authorities held talks with KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi to resolve the stand off. Police acted on protesters …
ITANAGAR: Three districts of Arunachal Pradesh have been facing acute shortage of essential commodities due to on going indefinite economic blockade. The agitation is spearheaded by Krishan Mukti Sangram Samiti(KMSS) in several parts of Assam in protest against the Lower Subansiri Hydro-electric Project (LSHP). The East Siang, West Siang and …
GUWAHATI: Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity (KMSS) that is spearheading anti-mega dam protests in eastern Assam has called for indefinite bandh of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts from Tuesday (December 27) in protest against ‘police atrocities’ on anti-dam protestors who were forcefully evicted from the demonstration site at Ranganadi in the wee …
A late-night crackdown by the police and paramilitary forces on anti-mega dam protesters in Lakhimpur district triggered raging protests at several places in Assam on Monday. The police arrested more than 200 protesters, who since December 16 had been blocking vehicles transporting equipment and construction materials, through National Highway 52, …
GUWAHATI: Failing to elicit any response from the Assam Government towards their road blockade programme, anti-dam activists today said that they will extend their blockade of vehicles carrying goods to the mega dam site at Gerukamukh for an indefinite period, even as they threatened to launch an indefinite economic blockade …
GUWAHATI, Dec 22: In view of the continuing protests by anti-dam activists against the 2,000-MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project at Gerukamukh along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border, the Assam Government appears desperate to resolve the stalemate. The government had formed a Group of Ministers (GoM) to deal with all aspects of …
