The Central Electrical powered Authority (CEA) has questioned the developer of the Subansiri Decrease Hydroelectric Enterprise (SLHEP), NHPC Ltd, to make enhancements to its improvement safety steps, akin to reassessment of slope stability of surrounding mountains, vitality of the safety wall, and staff’ safety.
A crew consisting of HPPI Division Director Balwan Kumar and HPM Division Deputy Director Faraz, which was on an internet web page cease by to critique the bodily progress of quite a lot of will work for the venture, has suggested that reassessment of the impression of river diversion by means of diversion tunnel (DT) on the slope steadiness of surrounding mountains might maybe be carried out by the NHPC.
In its report, it reported that, owing to “left monetary establishment slide earlier than, one of many diversion tunnels skilled acquired blocked and at the moment, solely 4 DTs are diverting the river. The continual h2o circulation because of diversion for all these a prolonged time within the circumstance of Subansiri Decreased HEP might probably have the results of eroding its partitions.”
The diversion tunnels are short-term tunnels to divert the water of the river all through building. These are on the left lender in Assam. The newest incident is in contradiction to the MoEFCC’s deceptive assert in its June 2019 letter, wherein it skilled mentioned that there was no main instability.