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NEW DELHI: An adept appraisal committee of the Union situation ministry has granted clearance to the 2,220MW Oju hydroelectric task located successful a strategically important portion successful Arunachal Pradesh's Upper Subansiri territory bordering China.
One of the largest run-of-river hydro projects successful India, it volition outgo astir Rs 25,000 crore and is apt to instrumentality astatine slightest 5 years to beryllium completed. It is India's third-largest hydroelectric task to get biology clearance aft the 3,087MW Etalin and 2,880MW Dibang project, some besides successful Arunachal. Set up real-time aboriginal informing system for project: Panel Oju is the largest successful a bid of dams projected connected Subansiri stream and has been successful the pipeline for astir 20 years.
It involves a 100-metre-high factual gravity dam, implicit 14 km agelong headrace passageway and an underground powerhouse complex. The adept appraisal committee, portion giving its motion for the task earlier this month, directed the developer to see 'glacial water outburst floods' scenarios successful the plan flood estimates, found a real-time aboriginal informing strategy and behaviour assemblage preparedness drills. The sheet has besides mandated a post-commissioning biology interaction survey aft 5 years.
