{"id":65498,"date":"2025-09-28T14:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=65498"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:01:05","slug":"oju-hydel-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/oju-hydel-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Oju Hydel Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Oju Hydel Project Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An expert panel of the Union Environment Ministry recently recommended environmental clearance for the 2,220 MW Oju hydroelectric project proposed on the Subansiri River in Taksing near the China border.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Oju Hydel Project<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a hydroelectric project proposed on the <\/span><b>Subansiri River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (right-bank <\/span><b>tributary of the Brahmaputra<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in Taksing, <\/span><b>Arunachal Pradesh, near the China border.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project, to be developed by <\/span><b>Oju Subansiri Hydro Power Corporation Pvt. Ltd., <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">envisages generating <\/span><b>2,220 megawatts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of electricity through a run-of-the-river scheme with daily peaking capability.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It involves a 100-metre-high <\/span><b>concrete gravity dam, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a 14.12 km headrace tunnel, and an underground powerhouse complex.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With an estimated cost of over Rs 24,942 crore, the dam is expected to produce 8,402 million units of electricity annually.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">It is the <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">largest in a series of dams proposed on the Subansiri River,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> often described as the lifeline of Assam.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/expert-committee-nod-for-2200-mw-oju-hydel-project-near-china-border-10267650\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oju Hydel Project, a proposed hydroelectric project on Subansiri River in Taksing, Arunachal Pradesh, lies near the China border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":65722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2950,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-65498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-oju-hydel-project","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}