June 10, 2025 12:43 pm
Last month, while addressing the protests against the project, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu had said: “Where hydropower is concerned, we will do what the people say if they have an objection"
December 30, 2024 11:35 am
The northeastern state's lone hydroelectric project commissioned in 1984 suffered serious damage due to the unprecedented flood in September this year.
December 12, 2024 11:12 am
NHPC, the hydropower PSU supposed to build the project, has chosen three proposed sites along the Siang river — Ugeng, Dite Dime, and Parong.
August 24, 2024 12:40 pm
In a statement issued by NHPC, it mentioned that "The area of Teesta Basin Region has been subject to periodic natural subsidence/landslides during the ongoing monsoon season."
April 06, 2023 7:09 am
Monday’s landslide, the NHPC said, did not impact any project components or structure and would not further delay in commissioning the two units by June 2023.
April 05, 2023 5:33 am
Videos captured by locals on Monday showed soil and boulders crashing down a hillside that has been cut for construction alongside where work is underway on the Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project at Gerukamukh in Assam’s Dhemaji district.
January 10, 2022 9:44 am
Shortlisted candidates will be provisionally selected and extended offer of appointment after their documents are verified at NHPC's Corporate Office in Faridabad, Haryana.
August 12, 2019 2:19 am
NHPC Ltd Chairman and Managing Director Balraj Joshi tells The Indian Express that the company is also looking at devising some kind of mechanism to take over stranded private projects.
November 02, 2017 10:18 am
Both water and information controlled by governments and their agencies are public goods. They must be readily accessible to the people on demand. Nobody should be allowed to claim proprietorial rights over either of them. Yet the CIC brushed aside all these arguments and ruled in favour of continued secrecy.
September 04, 2017 9:07 pm
The ULFA faction, in a statement e-mailed to media offices here on Monday, held North-Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) responsible for the recent floods in Lakhimpur district, and asked it to leave Assam, and said NHPC’s Lower Subansiri hydel project would cause a much bigger disaster.