Published 18:11 IST, January 6th 2025
Estimated at a cost of approximately USD 137 billion, the dam is to be built in the ecologically fragile Himalayan region. Follow:
Estimated at a cost of approximately USD 137 billion, the dam is to be built in the ecologically fragile Himalayan region. | Image:
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New Delhi, India: China on Monday reaffirmed its plans to construct the world’s biggest dam on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet, near the Indian border. Foreign Ministry’s new spokesman Guo Jiakun in a media briefing said that the project has undergone extensive scientific assessments and assured that it would not adversely affect downstream countries, including India and Bangladesh. Estimated at a cost of approximately USD 137 billion, the dam is to be built in the ecologically fragile Himalayan region, an area prone to frequent earthquakes due to its location along a tectonic plate boundary.
“On the hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, China has made its position clear. Let me reiterate that the decision to build the project was made after rigorous scientific evaluation and the project will not have a negative impact on the ecological environment, geological conditions and the rights and interests related to water resources of downstream countries,” Foreign Ministry’s new spokesman Guo Jiakun told a media briefing here.
“Rather, it will, to some extent, help with their disaster prevention and reduction and climate response,” he said, replying to a question that India has expressed its concerns over the dam and the issue figured in the Indian officials talks with the visiting US National Security Advisor Sullivan.
Sullivan, currently visiting Delhi, held talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday broadly reviewing the trajectory of the India-US global strategic partnership in the last four years under the Biden administration.
Sullivan is on a visit to India two weeks ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th president of the US.
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