In Assam, the Police resorted to lathicharge and fired in the air at Chauldhowa on Monday to disperse anti-dam protesters who blocked NH-52 on the border of Lakhimpur-Dhemaji districts and pelted stones at security force and public vehicles. Officials said, no injuries were reported. The administration of the twin districts had earlier appealed to the protesters to withdraw their 10-day long agitation to allow movement of vehicles between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh through National Highway-52. The protestors reacted violently after security forces attempted to physically remove the agitationists protesting against the construction of the 2000-MW Lower Subansiri hydro-electric project near Lakhimpur on the border of Assam and Arunachal.The police also dispersed the protesters at Pohumara, Boginadi and Gogamukh in both the districts and arrested over 200 picketers along with their leaders. The protestors claim the construction of the dam will affect the people living in the downstream areas of the river in neighbouring Assam.