Some 22 kilometres upstream of the Siang from the town of Pasighat in eastern Arunachal is the site of the proposed 2,700 megawatt(MW) Lower Siang hydroelectric project. It was transferred from the Brahmaputra Board to the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), which then handed it over to Jaypee Associates. The Dihang or Siang flows down from Tibet through Arunachal to Assam, where it combines with the Dibang and Lohit rivers to form the Brahmaputra. The upper end of Assam where