TN opposes CWC’s advice to check Mullaperiyar dam protection

By way of Specific Information Carrier

NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu executive on Thursday instructed the Perfect Courtroom that the State of Kerala has been again and again thwarting the efforts through them to hold out the strengthening paintings of the Mullaperiyar dam.
The Tamil Nadu executive instructed the courtroom that the dam is protected and there’s no urgent wish to have a recent assessment of the dam’s protection as used to be urged through Central Water Fee (CWC) and the Supervisory Committee of the dam via a testimony filed earlier than the Courtroom on January 27.

“There may be neither deformation nor abnormality within the Dam. Additional, silting of the Dam may be very minimal. On this water yr 2021-22, water used to be saved within the Dam at a degree of +142 feet. from November 30, 2021 for approximately 18 days, and all of the parameters of the Dam had been discovered to be inside of limits,” the reaction filed through Tamil Nadu stated.

The Tami Nadu executive, due to this fact, stated that that CWC / Supervisory Committee or through its instrumentalities will have to be directed to hold out assessment at the protection of the Dam simplest after finishing the steadiness strengthening works and upkeep works as have been directed through the Perfect Courtroom in 2006 and later in 2014.

Tamil Nadu executive has, thus, prayed that Kerala be directed to cooperate, and supply all essential help in a time-bound method in order that the remainder strengthening and upkeep works are carried out in letter and spirit right through the following 4 months taking off March 2022 earlier than the monsoon season begins.

The Mullaperiyar Dam, positioned in Kerala’s Periyar River and which provides water to 5 districts of Tamil Nadu, has been a contentious factor between the 2 states. Whilst Kerala has been keeping up for the previous few many years that the Dam is unsafe, TN has all alongside vouched for its protection.