Taluk JD(S) President M R Ravishankar has alleged that the check dam, pipelines laid across Bhadra backwaters at Menasur village in N R Pura is of poor quality.
He alleged misappropriation of crores of rupees in the same project.
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu can raise the storage level of the Mullaperiyar reservoir to 142 feet and there is no need to take permission from Kerala, Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy said here on Wednesday.
THIRUVANANATHAPURAM: A structural stability analysis of the Mullaperiyar dam conducted by the Department of Earthquake Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkie, has concluded that the main Mullaperiyar dam and the baby dam are likely to face damage in the event of an earthquake. Such damage may lead to failure of the dam.
KOLLAM: The National Board for Wildlife Protection under the Union Environment and Forest Department has accorded sanction to conduct survey and investigation work for the construction of a new dam at Mullaperiyar.
CHIEF Minister M Karunanidhi on Thursday sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention to withdraw the decision to allow land survey for a new Mullaiperiyar dam. He said the State Government was forced to get a stay on the permission given to Kerala to undertake survey for the dam, as the Union Environment Ministry had erred in its decision.
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has attacked Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh for giving the nod to the Kerala government for undertaking a forest survey for construction of a new dam in the Mullaperiyar reservoir area.
The present issue of Mullai Periyar Dam is analysed from the points revealed by Kerala about the safety of the Dam to suggest a feasible win-win solution duly considering the implied stand of Kerala as perceived by the author.
