‘Vaigai Dam is the best maintained dam in TN’
Chennai:
Tamil Nadu on Friday said that Kerala is trying to politicize the Mullaiperiyar issue and there is no truth over its statements on dam.
Replying to queries from reporters in the wake of Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy raising the pitch of building a new dam in place of the 116-year-old Mullaiperiyar reservoir, Public Works Department minister K V Ramalingam said, “The Kerala Chief Minister is trying to politicize the issue and there is no truth in his statement.”
“The empowered committee has already stated that the Mullaiperiyar dam is strong and safe,” Ramalingam said while participating a workshop on dam safety held here on Friday.
Chandy, who was here en route to Puducherry to pay homage to Kerala Governor M O H Farook, who died on Thursday night, while sticking to the stand of building a new dam in place of the 116-year-old Mullaperiyar reservoir, said Kerala is aware of the importance of giving water to five parched districts of Tamil Nadu, but is concerned over the safety of its people.
Earlier, the minister honoured the engineers of Vaigai dam, which was awarded the ‘Best maintained dam’ for year 2011. PWD engineering-in-chief of the Water Resources Department S S Rajagopal said the engineers are honoured to inculcate inbuilt competition among engineers for better maintenance and shows the government concern for dam safety.
The dam safety directorate of the state, which came into being in 1991 is paying adequate attention to the safety of dams and at present there are 89 water resource dams which includes four drinking water supply reservoirs and 38 TANGEDCO dams.
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