Assam CM lays foundation for Adani power project on land cleared by evicting 1,400 Muslim families
· Scroll
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday laid the foundation for a thermal power project to be built by Adani Power Limited in the state’s Dhubri district on land where the homes of 1,400 Bengali-origin Muslim families were demolished in July 2025.
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The project is located in Charuabakhra, Chirakuta I and II and Santoshpur villages under the Chapar revenue circle.
In July 2025, the Assam government had demolished the homes of more than 1,400 Bengali-origin Muslim families living on nearly 1,157 acres of government land in these villages to make way for a power project. The land was allotted to the state-run Assam Power Distribution Company Limited, which subsequently allotted it to Adani Power Limited for the project.
Nearly 10,000 Bengali-origin Muslims who had lived in the area for at least three decades to four decades were displaced following the demolitions, Scroll had reported.
A resident had said then that many were “erosion-hit people who lost their ancestral homes due to the Brahmaputra”.
On Sunday, the chief minister said that the 3,200 MW thermal power project was Assam’s “biggest-ever power project” and would generate enough electricity to meet the state’s entire power needs.
“The project is expected to generate up to 20,000 jobs during construction and around 5,000 jobs once operational,” the Adani Group said in a...