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The All Assam Students Union today asked the Centre, the Assam government and the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation to immediately shelve the Lower Subansiri hydroelectric project after a committee of experts found that the project would have adverse impact on ecology, aquatic life and people.
The project is being executed by the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation at Gerukamukh village in Dhemaji along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border to generate 2,000MW of power. The committee, with experts from Gauhati University, Dibrugarh University and IIT Guwahati, was formed to study the downstream impact of the power project following a tripartite meeting between the state government, the power corporation and the AASU in December 2006. The panel submitted its report to Dispur and the power corporation on June 29, while AASU received a copy of the study this morning.Ltd.