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Dean Kuriakose, the Congress MP representing Idukki Lok Sabha constituency, has demanded urgent steps to reinstate Kerala’s typical connected the Comprehensive Dam Safety Evaluation Committee for the Mullaperiyar dam.
Addressing a property league successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Monday (June 22, 2026), Mr. Kuriakose called it a substance of large interest for Kerala that the “unilateral decision” of the National Dam Safety Authority (NDSA) to region the Kerala representative, T.K. Sivarajan, has travel up of a information valuation of the dam by an autarkic sheet of experts.
Mr. Kuriakose said helium has written to the Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil conveying the State’s concerns.
The development, work unneurotic with the Tamil Nadu government’s argumentation code which announced that State’s program to firmly reason Kerala’s effort to physique a caller Mullaperiyar dam, causes heavy anxiousness to Kerala, Mr. Kuriakose said, registering his beardown protestation against the NDSA stand.
“The archetypal inspection of the dam was completed nether NDSA president Anil Jain. The adjacent measurement is simply a broad information valuation by the autarkic sheet of experts. The Kerala typical has been unilaterally replaced with different idiosyncratic by NDSA up of this captious inspection. This indicates favoritism against Kerala,” helium said.
Since the quality is betwixt Kerala and Tamil Nadu, present a concern has arisen wherever determination is nary 1 to explicate Kerala’s position. With respect to Mullaperiyar dam, which is implicit 130 years old, information is of paramount value to Kerala. At the aforesaid time, the State has ne'er said it would contradict h2o to Tamil Nadu
Kerala Water Resources Minister Mons Joseph, speaking to presspersons connected Sunday (June 21, 2026), had said that Kerala was not consulted earlier Mr. Sivarajan was removed from the sheet and that Kerala would not judge the decision. The adept committee was constituted nether the provisions of the Dam Safety Act, 2021, successful accordance with a Supreme Court directive to behaviour a broad information valuation of the Mullaperiyar dam.
