Alluri Seetharama Raju District Collector A.S. Dinesh Kumar will convene a meeting with representatives of the anti-hydropower project protest committee at the Collectorate in Paderu on Monday (September 29), the leader of the protest committee and Anantagiri ZPTC member D. Gangaraju said on Sunday.

He said that the Collector had invited them to hold a meeting with him on recent issues, including the protest against hydropower projects in ASR district on Saturday.

He said that the government had proposed to set up hydropower projects at five places — Anantagiri mandal’s Pedakota, Chittammavalasa and Gujjeli and Yerravaram (Koyyuru mandal) and Majjivalasa in Hukumpeta mandal — of the district, against the interests of the locals and tribals.

He said the protests by locals against the hydropower projects in the district have received tremendous response. He said the committee would work in every possible way to protect the rights of the people of the district and the environment.