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India-Bangladesh: China defended its plan to build the world’s largest dam on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet on Friday (27 December 2024), saying the project will have no negative impact on other countries and security issues have been addressed through decades of study. The solution has been done. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning dismissed apprehensions over this huge project with an estimated cost of US $ 137 billion.
China has been studying this place for decades
This project is being built in the ecologically very delicate Himalayan region, which is located on the tectonic plate boundary, where earthquakes occur frequently. He said that China has done extensive studies and taken security measures for decades. When asked about concerns related to the dam, Mao said that China has always been responsible for the development of the rivers passing across the border. He said hydropower development in Tibet has been intensively studied for decades and safeguards have been taken to ensure the safety of the project and to protect the ecology and environment.
China spoke on the concerns of India and Bangladesh
Referring to the concerns of India and Bangladesh, Mao said, “This project will not have any negative impact on the downstream areas.” He said, “China will maintain contacts with the downstream countries through existing channels and Will increase cooperation on disaster prevention and relief for the benefit of the people living along the river banks.
Mao said China’s hydropower development in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River aims to accelerate the development of clean energy and deal with climate change and extreme hydrological disasters. China on Wednesday approved the construction of the world’s largest dam on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet near the Indian border, which is being described as the world’s largest infrastructure project. This has increased concern in India and Bangladesh through which this river passes.
137 billion US dollars investment
An official statement said that this hydropower project will be built in the lower part of Yarlung Zangbo river. Yarlung Zangbo is the Tibetan name of Brahmaputra. The dam will be built in a vast valley in the Himalayas, where the Brahmaputra river enters Arunachal Pradesh and then takes a big turn into Bangladesh. According to the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, the total investment in the dam could exceed one trillion yuan (US$137 billion).
China has already commissioned the largest, the US$1.5 billion Zam hydropower station in Tibet in 2015. Plans to construct a dam on the Brahmaputra have raised concerns in India because the size and scale of the dam, in addition to giving China the right to control water flow, could allow large volumes of water to flood border areas during times of standoff. May also be able to release water.
India is also building a dam on the Brahmaputra in Arunachal Pradesh. India and China established the Expert Level Mechanism (ELM) in 2006 to discuss various issues related to trans-border rivers, under which China provides hydrological information on the Brahmaputra and Sutlej rivers to India during the flood season. .
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