Assam House panel to study impact of Arunachal dams
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27/07/2009
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Indian Express (New Delhi)
With legislators across parties expressing fears about the impact in Assam of mega dams on rivers in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam Assembly Speaker Tanka Bahadur Rai has constituted a House Committee to carry out its own study of the problem.
The House Committee will visit the districts adjoining Arunachal Pradesh and make an on-the-spot assessment of the downstream impact of dams. Senior Congress MLA Membor Gogoi has been named chairman of the panel.
While the issue came up in the Assembly