MoEF pays no heed to EAC's suggestions, dilly-dallies grant of EC for KSK Energy's Dibbin HEP

Hyderabad based KSK Energy Ventures Limited is yet to receive the letter of consent from the Ministry of Environment and Forests

(MoEF) for environmental clearance (EC) for its 120 MW Dibbin hydro electric project (HEP), despite the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) having

recommended the EC to the project back in March 2011.
8This is in stark contrast to the progress made on the forest clearance front, wherein the developer has been recently awarded the stage-I

approval for diversion of 37.09 ha of forest land from the Government of Arunachal Pradesh (GoAP).
8According to the developer, the financial closure activities will be initiated and concluded once the Ministry of Environment and Forests

(MoEF) has granted the final forest clearance. Private land for the project is likely to acquired by April 2012.
8Notably, the Dibbin HEP has been conceived as a run-of-the-river project, which involves construction of a concrete gravity dam of height 98

m, a 3,970 m long circular head race tunnel (HRT) of 5.5 m dia and a tail race tunnel (TRT) of 150 m length.
8Further, a surface power house, with the installation of two Fransis turbines of 60 MW capacity, each, will be developed at 250 m upstream of

the confluence of Bichom Bru and Debra Bru. To be constructed at a projected total expense of Rs 767.10 crore, it is estimated to afford an

annual energy generation of 370.5 GWh in a year.