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NEW DELHI: In what could marque sparks alert betwixt Tamil Nadu and Kerala, already successful an uneasy narration implicit the Mullaperiyar dam, Supreme Court connected Monday sought responses from some states and the Centre connected an NGO's plea for a broad information audit of the 130-year-old dam and remedial measures, including its imaginable decommissioning.A seat of CJI B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran besides sought responses from National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and National Dam Safety Authority (NDSA) connected the petition by 'Save Kerala Brigade', which expressed interest implicit the outdated dam, located successful a seismic zone, posing a superior menace to the lives of 10 cardinal radical surviving downstream.Appearing for the NGO, elder advocates V Giri and Haris Beeran sought "a holistic, adept information valuation of the dam by nationalist and planetary dam information experts and remedial measures, including its imaginable decommissioning"."The 1895-built Mullaperiyar Dam, constructed with lime-surkhi mortar and rubble masonry, sits connected the Periyar stream successful a seismic portion of precocious strength and exceeded agelong agone its plan life. Recent studies and surveys by experts amusement the dam successful a structurally unsafe state, threatening catastrophic nonaccomplishment astatine immoderate moment," the NGO said.As portion of the decades-old litigation betwixt the 2 confederate states implicit power of the dam, which is located wrong Kerala but owned by Tamil Nadu, successful 2006, SC had permitted the afloat reservoir level to beryllium accrued to 142 feet with requisite strengthening work.
The NGO requested SC to acceptable up a multi-disciplinary adept committee for the information audit of the dam nether tribunal supervision and nonstop simplification successful the FRL successful the interim, and sought mentation of a elaborate information reassessment and decommissioning/reconstruction plan, if needed.
