Rs. 20,469 cr Estimated project cost, up from initial Rs 6,900 crore

7421.59 milion units Estimated annual power generation

Annual power allocation

274 MW Arunachal Pradesh

533 MW Assam

193 MW Other NE states

5500 MW Rest of India

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Around October this year, mammoth machines lying idle for eight years whirred to life and workers with hand-held industrial tools resumed work. The stalled and long-delayed Lower Subansiri Hydro Electric Power Project at Ger­ukamukh, situated along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border, was back on track; it’s a project the government says will partly solve India’s electricity requirements. But for several organisations, the 2000-MW project in one the most seismologically active areas in the world is a disaster waiting to erupt. Independent exp­erts have...