Photo: ReutersThe new dam’s ability to generate hydropower could be three times that of central China’s Three Gorges Dam, reports Global Times of ChinaIndia has expressed its concern over the construction of a “super dam”, the largest installed hydro-power capacity in the world, by China on its part of the Brahmaputra River. China will build the dam on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, which was flowing into Arunachal Pradesh in India where it is called Siang and then to Assam as Brahmaputra before flowing into Bangladesh. Government carefully monitors all developments on the Brahmaputra River,” said the official spokesperson of Indian Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava in a weekly media briefing on Thursday evening. Anurag said that India intends to remain engaged with China on the issue of trans-border rivers to safeguard the country’s interests. “China will build a hydropower project on the Yarlung Zangbo River, one of the major waters in Asia that also passes through India and Bangladesh,” the Global Times reported.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 03, 2020 17:15 UTC