Overview

• The Environment Ministry issued clearance after its expert panel’s September 12 meeting recommended approval with safeguards.
• The run-of-the-river scheme at Taksing on the Subansiri includes a 100-metre concrete gravity dam, a 14.12 km headrace tunnel and an underground powerhouse rated at 2,100 MW plus a 120 MW dam-toe unit.
• EAC conditions require GLOF-inclusive design flood estimates, a real-time early warning system, community preparedness drills and a five-year post-commissioning environmental study.
• Project documents cite an estimated cost exceeding Rs 24,942 crore and expected annual generation of about 8,402 million units.
• The plan involves diverting roughly 750 hectares of forest, submerging about 43 hectares and relocating nine families, with local hearings flagging compensation, ecological, fisheries and sacred-site concerns.