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Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) person Medha Patkar connected Thursday visited the tract of the ongoing protestation astatine Vypeen nether the aegis of Mullaperiyar Tunnel Protest Committee demanding the operation of a caller passageway to merchandise h2o to Tamil Nadu from the Mullaperiyar dam, alternatively of gathering a caller dam arsenic projected by the Kerala government.
Ms. Patkar expressed her enactment for the 372-day-long protest. She urged Kerala and Tamil Nadu governments to conception a caller tunnel, arsenic recommended successful the Supreme Court verdict successful 2014. She criticised the connection for a caller dam astatine a clip erstwhile dams crossed the globe are being decommissioned owed to the risks they posed.
She called connected some governments to prosecute successful negotiations, and that if they failed to bash so, the radical of some States would instrumentality the initiative. Ms. Patkar urged section bodies from Mullaperiyar to Vypeen to walk resolutions demanding the operation of a caller passageway to little the h2o level successful the Mullaperiyar reservoir. She besides stated that she would constitute to the Chief Ministers of Kerala and Tamil Nadu astir the issue.
The committee plans to follow a multi-pronged strategy to resoluteness differences and physique statement betwixt the radical of the 2 bordering States. While the protestation volition proceed to advocator for the tunnel, the committee besides intends to initiate nonstop dialogues with farmers and intellectuals successful Tamil Nadu concerning the more-than-a-century-old dam.
The committee maintains that the more-than-a-decade-old verdict by a five-member Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court connected Mullaperiyar referred to the operation of a caller tunnel, positioned little than the existing one, to merchandise h2o to Tamil Nadu. This would trim h2o level successful the dam, ensuring some proviso to Tamil Nadu and information for Kerala.
According to the committee, constructing specified a passageway would outgo astir ₹100 crore, importantly little than the estimated ₹2,000 crore for a caller dam, which would besides instrumentality considerably much clip to complete.
