Tamil Nadu to seek SC cue on dam issue

May 27, 2012 - K. Karthikeyan |

chennai

Tags:

02MULLAPERIYAR-DAM-PHOTO_1.jpg.crop_display.jpg

With Justice A.S. Anand led Empowered Committee (EC) vindicating TN’s stand on the Mullaperiyar dam row, the state government has planned to step up its offensive shortly.

senior TN PWD (public works department) officials told Deccan Chronicle that the government has decided to move the Supreme Court seeking to implement the recommendation of the EC, which had concluded that the dam was safe and favoured the raising of water level in the dam to 142feet, a long-pending demand of TN.

A petition would be moved before the Constitution bench of the SC, which is already hearing TN’s petition challenging Kerala’s Irrigation Act that prohibits the raising of water level beyond 136 feet in gravity dam.

The court has been closed for vacation and the fresh petition praying for increasing the water level to 142ft as per the EC recommendation will be moved as soon as the constitution bench sits for hearing after the vacation,” the senior official noted.

Meanwhile, TN PWD engineers have decided to visit the dam again on Monday and attempt to close the holes dug in the main and baby dam of Mullaperiyar by experts deputed by the EC for assessing the dam’s structural safety.

PWD officials expressed hope that TN would not be compelled to seek legal recourse even for the issue of plugging the holes.

Twice in the past 30 days, including last Friday, Kerala officials prevented TN engineers from filling the holes in the dam, which remain open ahead of the monsoon season.

The officials, however, added that TN would not be averse to move SC for the plugging the holes if Kerala, which has given an undertaking to SC to protect the dam continues to prevent TN engineers from plugging the holes.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/155244" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-9ff564b1c21b4056870a316096aaf842" value="form-9ff564b1c21b4056870a316096aaf842" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="80481216" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>