Kamle (Arunachal Pradesh)/Dhemaji (Assam): Gerukamukh, a non-descript village on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border is a small dot on India’s map, but make no mistake of its importance given the presence of the Subansiri, the largest tributary of the Brahmaputra, in shoring up the North-East’s energy security.

Located near Arunachal Padesh’s Kamle district, a little over two-hour drive from Dibrugarh, the quaint little village is where India’s largest under-construction hydro power station—the 2,000 MW Subansiri Lower Hydro Electric Project (SLHEP)—is in the process of getting commissioned.

While 50 percent of the SLHEP structures, located upstream, including the main dam and the water conductor system that carries water to run the turbines, falls on the river’s right bank in Arunachal

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