impasse Itanagar, Feb 15 (PTI) With the resistance against the transportation of construction materials and other essential items to the hydro electric project at Gerukamukh in Arunachal, the All Lower Subansiri StudentsÂ' Union (ALSSU) has sought a Â'helping handÂ' from the concerned authorities, executing the project. The anti-dam protestors were opposing construction of Lower Subansiri Hydel Project at Gerukamukh which falls within a highly seismic zone. In a statement, ALSSU urged for intervention of NHPC, the executing agency of the power project, the government of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam urging them to initiate talks and bring an end the stoppage of transportation of materials. The statement followed the visit of an ALSSU team, led by its President Tado Raja, yesterday to the office of NHPC, Subansiri Lower Project, General Manager Om Prakash where the delegation told Prakash that people of Dullungmukh area were facing problem due to the situation. The ALSSU demanded Arunachal as well as neighbouring Assam seek to find an amicable solution to the problem without any further delay failing which ALSSU would be forced to launch a democratic movement. The students union also sought a detailed information from the authorities regarding employment of locals in the project as per the memoranda of agreement and demanded cent per cent job reservation for 'indigenous Arunachalee' people in group D, 80 per cent in C and 50 per cent in B posts. A report prepared by an expert committee comprising scientists from IIT Guwahati and universities in Assam on Subansiri Lower Project advised not to construct mega dams in a 'tectonically unstable region'. Last month, trucks carrying equipment from the project site at Gerukamukh remained stranded, owing to blockades on the highway. The work at the site has come to a grinding halt in the absence of fuel and construction material since. PTI UPL SUS
