SEIJOSA, April 9: Some people are trying to mislead the people in Arunachal about the dams and it’s a worldwide conspiracy to stop India to get development and feed wrong information when it comes to Hydropower, said Chief Minister Pema Khandu while responding to the query about the Dam projects in Arunachal.
He also asserted that, before any project, there are experts from different fields who do the assessment and file reports before giving any clearance, so after clearance; only the work on the ground gets started. The priorities in the assessments list are on the impact on the human race, the environment, and many other vital issues. There are no problems in making the dam, and if there are any issues, options are there to re-plan or re-generate the project with correctives measures, stated CM.
No one can fight nature, so it is not necessary that natural calamities will only occur in the area of Dams, but when we have to live and move ahead then we have to make development and investment, stated CM.
Natural calamities and Dam is two different chapters, In fact, flood and landslide get controlled where Dam is being constructed, asserted CM. Stating that, he said ‘India is a democratic country and I honour Ant-Dam movements they have rights to protest, but when people of the respective areas have no issues with the construction of Dam, then others also should not have any objection.
