{"id":387230,"date":"2020-12-02T08:34:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T03:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=387230"},"modified":"2020-12-02T09:03:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T03:33:04","slug":"govt-plans-big-dam-on-brahmaputra-to-offset-chinese-construction-upstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-plans-big-dam-on-brahmaputra-to-offset-chinese-construction-upstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt plans &#8216;big&#8217; dam on Brahmaputra to offset Chinese construction upstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is considering a plan to build a 10-gigawatts (Gw) hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh, an official said on Tuesday, following reports that China could construct dams on a section of the Brahmaputra river. <\/p>\n<p>The river, also known as the Yarlung Tsangbo in China, flows from Tibet into Arunachal Pradesh and down through Assam to Bangladesh. Authorities are concerned Chinese projects could trigger flash floods or create water scarcity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe need of the hour is to have a big dam in Arunachal Pradesh to mitigate the adverse impact of the Chinese dam projects,\u201d T S Mehra, a senior official in the Union water ministry, told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is considering a plan to build a 10-gigawatts (Gw) hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh, an official said on Tuesday, following reports that China could construct dams on a section of the Brahmaputra river. The river, also known as the Yarlung Tsangbo in China, flows from Tibet into Arunachal Pradesh and down through Assam to Bangladesh. Authorities are concerned Chinese projects could trigger flash floods or create water scarcity. \u201cThe need of the hour is to have a big dam in Arunachal Pradesh to mitigate the adverse impact of the Chinese dam projects,\u201d T S Mehra, a senior official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}