Kerala floods: Find ways to reduce water level at Mullaperiyar dam says SC
New Delhi, Aug 16: The Supreme Court has said that the Disaster Management Committee will sit. With the National Crisis Management tomorrow to bring down the water level in the Mullaperiyar dam.
The court said that both Kerala and Tamil Nadu will cooperate with the committee to give displaced people adequate security immediately. The court observed that people should not live in constant fear.
The court said that the sub committee of the Disaster Management committee may suggest, what measures can be taken to handle the disaster so that people do not suffer the catastrophe of the flood.
Kerala floods: Get TN to release water from Mullaperiyar to bring down water level, says plea in SC
During the hearing, Tamil Nadu said that the inflow into the dam is 20,000 cusecs. Due to rains, it may not be possible to reduce the water level immediately. There is limited capacity to release water, TN also said.
Kerala submitted that the water level at the dam should be reduced to 139 feet. The Centre said that the National Crisis Management Committee met today and assured continued assistance to Kerala.
The court said that the decisions of the sub-committee regarding water level of the dam shall be implemented by TN and Kerala immediately. The sub-committee shall file its report by 2 pm tomorrow.
A petition had been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a directive to the Centre to arrange meetings with Tamil Nadu in the wake of the floods.
The petitioner sought for a meeting between Kerala and Tamil Nadu on the Mullaperiyar dam in the backdrop of the floods.
The
petitioner
also
sought
for
a
Disaster
Management
Plan
to
be
activated.
Kerala,
Chief
Minister
Pinarayi
Vijayan
on
Wednesday
sent
an
SOS
to
Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi,
Home
Minister
Rajnath
Singh
and
his
counterpart
in
Tamil
Nadu
E
Palaniswami
on
the
rising
water
level
in
the
Mullaperiyar
Dam.
He asked Tamil Nadu chief minister to release water from Mullaperiyar Dam that was close to breaching the 142-feet mark, the maximum level that Kerala believes, the dam structure can safely hold.
He also made phone calls to PM Modi and the Union Home Minister, urging them to nudge Tamil Nadu to release some water from the dam to bring down the water level to 139 feet.