Subansiri Dam

State-run hydropower company NHPC Ltd. will start trial runs in July for the Subansiri Lower project that runs through the states of Assam and Arunchal Pradesh in the country's north-east

The NHPC officials also said that the remaining 6 units with a total capacity of 2000 MW of power will be completed by June of 2024

The fate of what could have been the country's largest hydropower project is stuck on the composition of a committee.In May, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) reserved its order on whether the committee for the 2,000 Mw project in Arunachal Pradesh, planned 15 years earlier, should continue. Being put up by state-owned NHPC, the Subansiri Lower Hydropower Project has meanwhile seen its cost shoot up by Rs 132 billion from an initially envisaged Rs 62 bn. Consequently, the power rate has also multiplied, to Rs 6.36 a unit (kilowatts an hour) by April 2017 from Rs 1.53 a unit when the project got government approval in 2003. NHPC began construction in January 2005 and says it has completed 55 per cent of the needed work, with Rs 102 bn already invested till June 2018. "We are awaiting various types of clearances for 10 prospective projects totalling 7,795 Mw," Balraj Joshi, chairman and managing director, told Business Standard. In October 2017, NGT had asked the Union ministry of ...