Arunachal Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein said that the State Government has almost finalized the process of transferring 14 major hydropower projects in the state from private developers to various Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs) and the signing of agreements with the latter is due next month.

It may be mentioned that the Arunachal government has terminated 44 agreements (MoAs) with various private power developers for their failure to execute the projects allotted to them and instead offered those to the CPSUs for development based on their performance and reliability, Mein had informed the Assembly on March 16, 2022.

He said that the had, in accordance to the Centres Hydro Power Policy, signed 153 MoAs with various CPSUs and Independent Power Producers (IPPs) for development of hydropower projects with the total installed capacity of 46,943 MW.