India starts construction of massive Dibang dam to counter Chinese threat

NEW DELHI: India started construction of a massive dam in Dibang, Arunachal Pradesh, to counter the threat posed by China's large dam on the Brahmaputra. China earlier announced that it had started work to build the world's largest dam on the Brahmaputra. The Chinese call the Brahmaputra 'Yarlung Tsangpo'. India will build a dam higher than the one China is building on the Brahmaputra.

If China's dam is opened without warning, the Brahmaputra will overflow its banks and flood the northeastern states of India. The dam is being built higher than that to prevent this.

The construction is being carried out by the public sector undertaking, National Hydro Electric Power Corporation.

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu and BJP leaders visited Munli village, where the dam is being built. Last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the Dibang Multipurpose Project.

China is building the dam in Nyingchi, on the India-China border in Tibet, adjacent to Arunachal Pradesh. The project, which will include five power projects, will surpass China's own 'Three Gorges Dam', the world's largest dam.

👉India is building in Arunachal

👉2880 MW: Electricity

👉17,069 crore: Construction cost

👉2032: The year India will complete the project

👉16,700 crore USD: China's construction cost