China Clears World's Largest Dam in Tibet Near India Border
Financial Express Ahmedabad|December 27, 2024
CHINA HAS APPROVED construction of the world's largest dam, stated to be the biggest infra project costing $137 billion, on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet close to the Indian border, raising concerns in riparian states India and Bangladesh.
K J M VARMA

The Chinese government has approved the construction of a hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo river, the Tibetan name for the Brahmaputra, according to an official statement quoted by state-run Xinhua news agency Wednesday.

The dam is to be built at a huge gorge in the Himalayan reaches where the Brahmaputra river makes a huge U-turn to flow into Arunachal Pradesh and then to Bangladesh.

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