"India has no right to interfere in China's plans to contruct dam"
Shillong, Jun 29 (UNI) Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said India has no right to interfere in China's plans to construct a dam at Yarlung Tsangpo point on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet.
''They (China) have every right to construct a dam in their own country and we have no right to opposed them,'' Mr Shinde told UNI here today, while refusing to elaborate any further.
China had planned to construct a dam at Yarlung Tsangpo point on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet province to divert 200 billion cubic metres of water annually to the Yellow River, threatening a major ecological disaster in Brahmaputra basin and Bangladesh within the next few years.
Several NGOs in North East India and Bangladesh fear that Asom and Bangladesh would turn into a desert in the near future as water flow from the Brahmaputra-Jamuna river, which is about 60 per cent of the total water flow, will fall drastically if China builds the dam.
''One-third of the water flow from Brahmaputra-Jamuna would decline if the project is implemented,'' they had said.
UNI