Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa said on Saturday that the state government’s stand on the Mullaperiyar dam has been vindicated by the Supreme Court appointed empowered committee’s report, which vouched for the safety of the dam.

The five-member SC committee, headed by former Chief Justice of India A. S. Anand, had said “the dam is hydrologically, structurally and seismically safe” and asked Kerala to reconsider its decision to decommission the existing dam and build a new one.