The Tamil Nadu Govt on Wednesday Nov19,2014 moved the
Supreme Court for a directive to the Union government to deploy the
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at the Mullaperiyar dam
immediately for its protection and to enable the State to raise the
level to 142 feet.
In its application, Tamil Nadu
said Kerala MLA Biju Mol, along with a group of journalists, visited the
dam on November 17,2014 without permission from the supervisory committee,
constituted as per the Supreme Court’s May 7 order. The Executive
Engineer of the Tamil Nadu PWD informed the MLA that she could inspect
the dam but the journalists could not visit it. He requested the local
police on duty not to permit the journalists, but the police asked him
to safeguard himself and told him that they could not do anything in the
presence of the MLA. The engineer was pushed by a few journalists.
Chief Secretary Mohan Verghese Chunkath lodged a protest with his Kerala
counterpart against the visit of the MLA and the Kerala police’s
failure to prevent the unauthorised entry.
The incident showed that Kerala had failed in its solemn obligations to protect the dam, it said.
Tamil
Nadu said the dam level steadily increased to 141.07 feet as on
November 17 against the permitted storage of 142 feet. “Officials of
Kerala are raising the bogey of the safety of the dam and untenable
contentions, seeking to review the judgment and attempting to reduce the
storage to less than 142 feet.”
On November 15,
Kerala filed an application for clarification/guidance that storage
above 136 feet was to start only after the storage space of the Vaigai
dam was exhausted. To prevent the level crossing 142 feet, the gate
should be opened gradually when the level stood at 136 feet, and the
discharge should spread over 72 hours. Tamil Nadu said Kerala’s
application was an attempt to reopen the judgment.
The
application said Tamil Nadu asked the chairman of the supervisory
committee to deploy the CISF for the meeting scheduled for November 24,2014
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