GUWAHATI: Assam Public Works (APW), one of the most organizations that have been opposing the construction of the Lower Subansiri Hydropower Project on account of environmental and safety considerations, on Tuesday advisable a London-based seismology professional as a member of the independent committee to review the technicalities of the construction of the challenge.
Sarada Kanta Sarma, emeritus reader in engineering seismology and senior research fellow at Imperial College, London, has been recommended "only as a recommendation", APW stated.
"With an experience of 37 years, Sarma, a geotechnical engineer, is an expert in seismic hazard assessment of engineering sites, seismic design of earth dams and in the geotechnical aspects of seismic effects in general," stated Aabhijeet Sharma, president of APW and petitioner prior to the NGT.
He submitted that the petitioner aspect would be greater than keen to post two more names to the Union ministry of surroundings, woodland and climate alternate.
In April, the National Green Tribunal had taken up a petition to evaluate the technicalities of the construction and requested the Centre to set up an expert committee. The directive got here after APW complained that the federal government had violated a previous tribunal order while forming a three-member professional committee.
"As many as nine committees had been constituted to look into the dynamics of the project and not even one committee had reached a holistic conclusion," Sharma stated. The petitioner had earlier alleged that in spite of NGT's order to shape a committee with completed professionals and scientists - including individuals or professionals from institutions of fame who've undertaken studies on seismology, hydrology of rivers and river ecosystem of the Himalayas and the northeast - the Centre had set up a committee which consisted handiest of former govt employees.
The challenge, taken up by way of the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation, is supposed to be the biggest hydel energy challenge in the country upon finishing touch. Work has been stalled since December 2011, on the other hand, after several local bodies adverse its construction at the grounds that it didn't conform to safety norms in the face of a seismic match and the imaginable affect it could have in the downstream spaces of Assam.
Sarada Kanta Sarma, emeritus reader in engineering seismology and senior research fellow at Imperial College, London, has been recommended "only as a recommendation", APW stated.
"With an experience of 37 years, Sarma, a geotechnical engineer, is an expert in seismic hazard assessment of engineering sites, seismic design of earth dams and in the geotechnical aspects of seismic effects in general," stated Aabhijeet Sharma, president of APW and petitioner prior to the NGT.
He submitted that the petitioner aspect would be greater than keen to post two more names to the Union ministry of surroundings, woodland and climate alternate.
In April, the National Green Tribunal had taken up a petition to evaluate the technicalities of the construction and requested the Centre to set up an expert committee. The directive got here after APW complained that the federal government had violated a previous tribunal order while forming a three-member professional committee.
"As many as nine committees had been constituted to look into the dynamics of the project and not even one committee had reached a holistic conclusion," Sharma stated. The petitioner had earlier alleged that in spite of NGT's order to shape a committee with completed professionals and scientists - including individuals or professionals from institutions of fame who've undertaken studies on seismology, hydrology of rivers and river ecosystem of the Himalayas and the northeast - the Centre had set up a committee which consisted handiest of former govt employees.
The challenge, taken up by way of the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation, is supposed to be the biggest hydel energy challenge in the country upon finishing touch. Work has been stalled since December 2011, on the other hand, after several local bodies adverse its construction at the grounds that it didn't conform to safety norms in the face of a seismic match and the imaginable affect it could have in the downstream spaces of Assam.
APW recommends seismology expert for Lower Subansiri project
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