On China ‘building Brahmaputra dam’, Delhi says monitoring situation
Amid reports that China plans to build a major dam on the Brahmaputra, India on Thursday said that it “carefully monitors” all developments relating to the river, and intends to remain engaged with China on the issue of trans-border rivers to safeguard its interests.
The Brahmaputra, known as the Yarlung Tsangpo in China, originates from Tibet and flows into Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.
The MEA’s official spokesperson, Anurag Srivastava, said at a briefing that the Chinese side has conveyed to India on several occasions that it was only undertaking run-of-the-river hydropower projects, which do not involve diversion of the Brahmaputra’s water.
