Itanagar, Mar 20: Deputy Chief Minister, Chowna Mein, during his two-day visit to Siang and Upper Siang district, addressed the people about the importance of the Upper Siang Multipurpose Project. 
Mein highlighted the growing concern regarding China’s massive $137 billion hydroelectric dam project, which is set to produce 60,000 MW of electricity over the Yarlung Tsangpo River, in the upper reaches of Siang river in China. 
While sharing some observations made by experts and research scholars on the environmental impact in the region of such a massive hydropower project over Tsangpo river, the Deputy Chief Minister said if China builds the massive dam over Yarlung Tsangpo river and divert its water, it will dry up the Siang river and its tributaries affecting aquatic life of the river and a large population in the plains of Assam and Bangladesh which depends on Brahmaputra river for irrigation of agricultural fields. He also opined that in the event of a conflict between the two nations, China may release large volume of water from the dam,…