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India has mentioned that it will be talking up the talks of construction of a dam across the Brahmaputra river with China once again. The issue had been discussed quite a few times, but then Beijing had been saying that these were baseless.
"We have taken up the issue with China many times. China has consistently denied that such a dam was being constructed," said the Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao while addressing the media.
She was answering the questions of the media after the National Remote Sensing Agency confirmed that China was constructing dam over Brahmaputra river.
The NRSA presented evidence of "houses, construction/excavation, and movement of trucks" in and around a three-four kilometre range at the site, according to a media report.
India has apprehensions that the proposed dam, which has been planned to generate 540 MW, will end up withholding water and feels it's inappropriate due to the absence of a bilateral treaty over trans-boundary rivers.
