{"id":387907,"date":"2020-12-04T11:54:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=387907"},"modified":"2020-12-04T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T08:23:23","slug":"india-tells-china-it-is-concerned-about-its-brahmaputra-hydropower-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-tells-china-it-is-concerned-about-its-brahmaputra-hydropower-project\/","title":{"rendered":"India tells China it is concerned about its Brahmaputra hydropower project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has conveyed its concerns regarding the diversion of waters of Brahmaputra river, India\u2019s external affairs ministry said on Thursday after reports that China is building a mega-dam on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo river close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Tibet.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese side has assured that they\u2019re only undertaking run of river hydropower projects which don\u2019t involve diversion of waters of Brahmaputra, MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said in a weekly media briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have urged them to ensure that the interest of downstream states isn\u2019t harmed by activities in upstream areas. Chinese side conveyed to us on several occasions that they\u2019re only undertaking run of river hydropower projects which don\u2019t involve diversion of waters of Brahmaputra,\u201d said Srivastava.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has conveyed its concerns regarding the diversion of waters of Brahmaputra river, India\u2019s external affairs ministry said on Thursday after reports that China is building a mega-dam on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo river close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Tibet. The Chinese side has assured that they\u2019re only undertaking run of river hydropower projects which don\u2019t involve diversion of waters of Brahmaputra, MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said in a weekly media briefing. \u201cWe have urged them to ensure that the interest of downstream states isn\u2019t harmed by activities in upstream areas. Chinese side [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387907","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=387907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}