A hydel boom runs dry

The company with the maximum number of licences, 12 in all, to build and operate hydro-power projects in Arunachal Pradesh is Energy Development Company. Amar Singh, the former Samajwadi Party leader, is its chairman, and actor Amitabh Bachchan was on its board till July 2011. Around the time it bagged 10 of those Arunachal projects, adding up to 500 MW, EDC was operating 16 MW of hydel capacity. This is one kind of mismatch in the efforts of Arunachal to become a hydel powerhouse overnight.

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