Environment / Arunachal

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...

Guwahati, March 16: Trekking through the inhospitable terrain of the Himalayan foothills in Arunachal Pradesh, researchers have detected what was known to exist only in Myanmar — “leaf Muntjac”, the world’s smallest species of deer.

The leaf deer, called so because it is small enough to fit into a large leaf, is barely 20 inches tall and weighs approximately 25 pounds.

Zoologists are excited over the discovery of the exotic mammal’s presence in India. With the Myanmar junta rarely allowing outsiders into their land, very little research has been done on the leaf deer.

But with the species...

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 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...

Guwahati, Dec. 23: When Assam-based ornithologist Anwaruddin Choudhury sighted a blue-and-white bird during a recent visit to the interiors of Arunachal Pradesh, he had a gut feeling that it was not just another feathered beauty.

Hours of painstaking research later, he knew for sure that the bird he had seen was a male Japanese blue flycatcher. In ornithological terms, it meant the addition of another species to the avifauna of the Indian subcontinent.

Recounting his experience, Choudhury told The Telegraph that the bird he had spotted did not resemble any of the known species of flycatchers...

ITANAGAR, June 12 ? The ruling Congress (I) government in Arunachal Pradesh continues to be in a slumber sleep, despite the mass eviction carried out by Assam forest officials against the Arunachalis living in the foothills areas bordering Assam under the pretext of the recent Supreme Court ruling. ?Despite the mass eviction being carried out by the Assam govt. against our people living in foothills, bordering Assam the ruling congress (I) govt. in the state is sleeping?, AAPSU and Papum Pare District Students? Union-who made a tour to some affected areas alleged.

?The Supreme Court in a...

ITANAGAR, June 11 ? The Arunachal Pradesh Government has filed a fresh petition in the Supreme Court seeking restraint on the evictions carried out by the Assam officials in various areas of the disputed portions of Assam-Arunachal border, reports PTI. Takam Sanjoy, Minister for Education and the spokesman of the Government in a statement on Monday said that more than 40 families have been affected in the wake of recent eviction carried out by the Assam Government officials. School buildings, transformers, water tanks, electricity facility and even houses of the teachers and villagers were not...

BURAGAON (Arunachal), June 4 ? The long-cherished dreams of the people of West Kameng district in particular and Arunachal Pradesh as a whole were fulfilled on Sunday with the laying of foundation stone of the Rs 3,000 crore 600 MW Kameng Hydropower Project at Buragaon, in West Kameng in Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday last. The 600 MW Kameng Hydropower Project is located at Buragaon, around 90 km from Bomdila ? the district headquarter of West Kameng of this tribal-dominated Himalayan State. ?With the laying of the foundation stone of this mega power project, the long-cherished dreams of the...