Kulsi river in Champupara village, west of Guwahati. File | Photo Credit: AP
After decades of conflict over a disputed boundary, villagers in Assam and Meghalaya living along the Kulsi River have come together to oppose a hydropower project pursued jointly by the two State governments.
In June 2025, the governments of Assam and Meghalaya announced their plan to build a 55-megawatt hydropower-cum-irrigation project on the Kulsi, a natural habitat of the endangered Gangetic dolphin. The dam was proposed at the confluence of the Dron, Shree and Dilma Rivers, which form the Kulsi, a tributary of the Brahmaputra.
The location of the proposed project is on the Assam-Meghalaya border, about 80 km southwest of Guwahati.
On Thursday (October 8, 2026), more than 2,000 people from the indigenous Bodo, Garo, Khasi and Rabha communities gathered at Ukiam to renew their opposition to the Kulsi project. Ukiam is near the proposed dam site and almost equidistant from Borduar and Langpih, two of the six disputed border sectors awaiting settlement since the 1970s.
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