On 9 February 2019, Prime Minister Modi inaugurated INR 4000 crore worth of projects in Arunachal Pradesh. One of the projects was a 110 MW Hydroelectric Power Plant financed under Indo-German Financial Development Cooperation.

The project  which KfW Development Bank had signed loan agreements for in 2008 and 2017 amounting to a total of 100 million Euro comprises of the construction of a hydroelectric power plant with a total plant capacity of 110 MW (2x55 MW) in the Papum Pare District of Arunachal Pradesh. Project partner is NEEPCO (North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Ltd) who took up the project to harness the hydropower potential of the river Dikrong, a tributary of river Brahmaputra. The project is a run of the river scheme with a 63 m high dam and a 2.8 km long tunnel. The plant was commissioned and both units (2x55MW) were synchronized to grid in the month of May, 2018. The project is expected to generate 506.42 MU of design energy at 95 per cent machine availability and 90 per cent dependable year. The project aims to increase the efficient and ecological as well as climate friendly generation of electric power, contributes to the socio-economic development of the North Eastern Region and to the protection of global climate.