Lawyers' body urges govt to scrap 3,097 MW Arunachal power plant
Itanagar/New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) The Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) on Friday urged the Centre and Arunachal Pradesh government to scrap the proposed 3,097 MW capacity Dibang Valley hydroelectric power project to protect the environment and wildlife in the region.The 3,097 MW capacity power plant proposed to be commissioned by Etalin Hydro Electric Power Company Limited, a joint venture between Jindal Power Limited and Arunachal Pradesh’s Hydro Power Development Corporation.The New Delhi-based ILAI in a statement said that at a time, the destruction of nature has been blamed for upheavals in the world including COVID-19 pandemic and green energy is being increasingly promoted, construction of outdated hydro-electric projects while destroying nature must be abandoned.ILAI Coordinator Dilip Chakma said that the Dibang Valley project would divert 1,150.08 hectares of land, fell over 2.7 lakh trees, destroy rare flora and fauna, and would further destroy the culture and heritage of local indigenous communities, particularly, the Idu Mishmi tribes in the region.”Apart from the Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary being the habitat of the tigers including snow tigers, in 2017, the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) had recorded that project location preserves luxuriant forests and plethora of flora and fauna, and about six globally threatened mammal species out of which three are endangered and three are under the vulnerable category,” Chakma pointed out.He said about 680 bird species were recorded, which is about 56 per cent of total bird species of India.
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