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Thiruvananthapuram: Water resources minister N K Premchandran on Saturday said to media persons that the statement that Kerala Government had failed to furnish reply deliberately to the technical report by the committee, was not correct .He said that reply to technical report on Mullaperiyar dam will be given by two weeks time and the state expects that the committee would take a justified stand on the issue.
Earlier the Empowered Committee on Mullaperiyar dam stated that Kerala had failed to furnish reply to the technical report by the committee. The committee also asked the state to file the reply within two weeks. The decision was taken in the meeting of the committee held here on Friday. Kerala was informed about technical examination. The committee also said that it will hear the arguments of Kerala and Tamil Nadu on February 17 and 18.
Meanwhile a five member technical team constituted by the Empowered Committee to assess the safety of Mullaperiyar dam, inspected it using sophisticated equipment, including waterproof silicon cameras. Officials said the committee marked spots at every 100 feet all the along the 1200 feet long dam before diving down to inspect it yesterday. They took photographs of the dam bed, covered with clay and rocks. The team was assisted by former Chief Engineer of Kerala M Sasidharan and R Subramani, head of the Cauvery Technical Committee The experts would continue their work today also, Subramani later told reporters.
The Supreme Court had constituted the empowered committee early last year, headed by former Chief Justice of India Justice A S Anand, to go into all issues including safety aspe ts of the more than 110-year dam, raising the water level beyond 136 feet and also Kerala's demand for a new dam. Kerala had completed a environmental survey on the plan to build a new dam after getting a conditional nod from the central Forest and Environment Ministry. Tamil Nadu and Kerala have been at loggerheads over increasing the height of the dam. While Tamil nadu wants to increase it from 136 feet to 142 feet, Kerala is opposed to it, saying it would affect thickly populated areas downstream.
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Meanwhile a five member technical team constituted by the Empowered Committee to assess the safety of Mullaperiyar dam, inspected it using sophisticated equipment, including waterproof silicon cameras. Officials said the committee marked spots at every 100 feet all the along the 1200 feet long dam before diving down to inspect it yesterday. They took photographs of the dam bed, covered with clay and rocks. The team was assisted by former Chief Engineer of Kerala M Sasidharan and R Subramani, head of the Cauvery Technical Committee The experts would continue their work today also, Subramani later told reporters.
The Supreme Court had constituted the empowered committee early last year, headed by former Chief Justice of India Justice A S Anand, to go into all issues including safety aspe ts of the more than 110-year dam, raising the water level beyond 136 feet and also Kerala's demand for a new dam. Kerala had completed a environmental survey on the plan to build a new dam after getting a conditional nod from the central Forest and Environment Ministry. Tamil Nadu and Kerala have been at loggerheads over increasing the height of the dam. While Tamil nadu wants to increase it from 136 feet to 142 feet, Kerala is opposed to it, saying it would affect thickly populated areas downstream.
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