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New Delhi, Dec 01 (CMC): In what may further intensify the political battle between Kerala and Tamil Nadu on the Mullaperiyar dam issue, the Jayalalithaa government on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking its urgent intervention over the dispute.
As per reports, the Tamil Nadu government has moved a petition before the apex court requesting it to restrain Kerala from further blowing the issue for its vested interest.
The Tamil Nadu government alleged that the political establishment in Kerala was using its influence to create panic among the residence of Tamil Nadu and the areas surrounding the disputed dam.
It said that the false propaganda by the Kerala government was creating more confusion amongst the people and further complicating the issue.
Meanwhile, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today arrived in the national capital to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
He said he would once again take up the matter with the PM and added that he would write to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa as well, explaining Kerala's position on the Mullaperiyar dam.
The dam in Kerala's Idukki district supplies water to Tamil Nadu.
Manmohan Singh is understood to have assured that a meeting of CMs of Tamil Nadu and Kerala would be arranged soon to discuss the contentious issue.
Tamil Nadu wants the dam's storage capacity to be increased by raising the dam height - from 136 feet (41.5 m) to 142 feet (43 m) to meet the growing irrigation needs of the state.
Kerala, on the other hand, wants a new dam as it fears that a strong earthquake might damage the existing dam.
TN moves SC on Mullaperiyar dam
Clean Media Correspondent
New Delhi, Dec 01 (CMC): In what may further intensify the political battle between Kerala and Tamil Nadu on the Mullaperiyar dam issue, the Jayalalithaa government on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking its urgent intervention over the dispute.
As per reports, the Tamil Nadu government has moved a petition before the apex court requesting it to restrain Kerala from further blowing the issue for its vested interest.
The Tamil Nadu government alleged that the political establishment in Kerala was using its influence to create panic among the residence of Tamil Nadu and the areas surrounding the disputed dam.
It said that the false propaganda by the Kerala government was creating more confusion amongst the people and further complicating the issue.
Meanwhile, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today arrived in the national capital to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
He said he would once again take up the matter with the PM and added that he would write to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa as well, explaining Kerala's position on the Mullaperiyar dam.
The dam in Kerala's Idukki district supplies water to Tamil Nadu.
Manmohan Singh is understood to have assured that a meeting of CMs of Tamil Nadu and Kerala would be arranged soon to discuss the contentious issue.
Tamil Nadu wants the dam's storage capacity to be increased by raising the dam height - from 136 feet (41.5 m) to 142 feet (43 m) to meet the growing irrigation needs of the state.
Kerala, on the other hand, wants a new dam as it fears that a strong earthquake might damage the existing dam.
It is notable that Tamil Nadu has not completed the construction of spillways even after several years. The spillway capacity is very important from the point of dam safety for as many as 50 per cent of dam failures in the World1 had resulted from inadequate capacity of the spillways. Tamil Nadu not only neglected this aspect, but also took certain measures that further jeopardised the dam’s safety. It allowed excavated materials to be dumped upstream of the spillways, that too to the level of the spillways.
ReplyDeleteThere have been more than 200 notable reservoir failures in 20th century in
the world (source CENTRAL WATER COMMISSION DAM SAFETY ORGANISATION,1986)
dams may survive 50 years or sometimes fail in 1 year too. Many cases reported in India itself where dams failed within first 5 yrs.
We are wagering with the lives of people to protect an archaic dam and the potatoes that can be cultivated using the water.