Development / Arunachal

New Delhi, June 5: The 400-year-old Tawang monastery ? one of the finest expressions of Buddhist architecture and culture in the country ? could soon lose its glory and unique character. Newer buildings, structures and colour schemes in the famed monastery have dramatically altered its original skyline.

A report by the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (Intach) has virtually sounded a red alert, recommending a masterplan for its upkeep. The only surviving original building in the entire complex is the Kanjur Lhakhang or the library, states the report titled Conservation...

NEW DELHI, April 10— The 2000 MW Subansiri Lower Hydro Electric Power Project is scheduled to be completed within seven years of procuring investment approval. The National Hydro Electric Power Corporation (NHPC) is currently looking for investment approval. The Project estimated to cost Rs 6,608.68 crore is to be located near North Lakhimpur on Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. The Project received techno-economic clearance by Central Electricity Authority on January 31. However, environment and forest clearance is awaited, Minister of State for Power, Jayawanti Mehta said.

ITANAGAR, April 1 ( APNEI) – Tired of pollution ? We gave you methane petrol , now take “Bio diesel…was the kind of assurance the union minister of state for rural development” Annasaheb MK Patil, a technocrat turned politician having a coveted American university engineering degree, gave to the northeasterners.

Talking to the media persons here Patil made a sensational disclosure that the entire northeast, Arunachal Pradesh in particular, was the hub of jetropa plant, found also in south India, which has already proved its potential in virtually substituting diesel.

Experiments were...

GUWAHATI, March 17 — The first step towards setting up of the 2,000 MW Subansiri hydro-power project by the NHPC has been cleared with the State Government giving clearance for use of 856.3 hectares of reserve forest land for the project. Talking to The Assam Tribune here today, Minister of State for Forest Pradyut Bordoloi said that the State Government decided to give clearance for use of reserve forest land as Subansiri project would be the largest hydro-power project in the country. However, he asserted that the Government would never compromise on the interest of environment, forest and...

ITANAGAR, March 10 – Bamboo or the poor man’s timber, as its is called emotionally, is poised for bringing about a revolution in Arunachal Pradesh in particular and the North East in general, claimed Dr S N Hegde, director Arunachal Pradesh State Forest Research Institute (SFRI) in an exclusive interview here Sunday.

Mentioning that the North East Region has the largest bamboo resource and holds a unique bamboo culture, Dr Hedge cited the Apatani bamboo cultivation and management of plantation which has already gained acclaim the world over.“This poor man’s timber comes in the life of the...

NEW DELHI, Feb 27 – Uncertainty over the 2000 MW Subansiri (Lower) hydro-electricity project may be finally over with the project likely to get the all-important Cabinet Committee on Economic Affair (CCEA) clearance by next month-end. The project – part of the Prime Minister’s economic package – has been hanging in limbo for past few years caught in bureaucratic wrangles in Delhi and problems with environmental groups back in Arunachal Pradesh. But that is over with the Central government already deciding to do away with the pre-Public Investment Board (pre-PIB) clearance. The project...

ITANAGAR, Feb 20 — Arunachal Pradesh government has taken up with the Defence Ministry to strengthening road communication along McMahon line in view of the ongoing massive infrastructural development across the border in China, reports PTI. “Security of the country should be the utmost consideration,” said Takam Sanjoy, government spokesman and education minister of Arunachal Pradesh, which has about 1500 km international border with China.

Development of the state’s border area could not be ignored in view of its “strategically sensitive” nature and Arunachal Pradesh government had drawn...

ITANAGAR, Feb 16 — The Arunachal Pradesh Government and the Centre were thinking of relaxing the Inner Line Permit (ILP) and Restricted Area Permit (RAP) systems for promoting tourism in the State, Chief Minister Mukut Mithi said Wednesday, reports PTI.

“We have not taken any decision to withdraw the ILP and RAP but contemplating to relax it,” the Chief Minister Mukut Mithi told reporters at the ‘Festival of Arunachal’ here. Mithi said both the ILP and RAP were introduced under the Bengal Frontier Regulation Act 1873 which could not be easily scrapped. At the same time, development of tourism...

ITANAGAR, Feb 4 ? The Arunachal Pradesh Government is awaiting the sanction Rs. 67.29 crore under the Centre?s Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (APDRP) for development of the power scenario in Miao, Dirang and Naharlagun circles, informed the state Power Minister Kento Ete.

A tripartite agreement between the Union Power Ministry, National Power Grid Corporation and the state government would be signed to facilitate the receipt of the amount as soon as the sanction is available, said Ete.

Meanwhile, the NEEPCO at Ranganadi generating station has started producing 135 MW...

GUWAHATI, Jan 19 ? The 2,000-MW Subansiri Lower Hydel Power Project has been given the ?Techno-Economic Clearance? by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA). The 256th meeting of the CEA held on January 13 gave its recommendations on technical and economic viability for construction of the Subansiri Lower project at a total cost of Rs 6418.37 crore and US $ 39.648 million (December 2002 price level). The members of the committee which studied the techno-economic aspects of the project included, apart from the CEA, Department of Power, Government of Assam, PWD and Power Department, Government...