Toug talk and muscle –flexing apart, the State Government has done next to nothing to frame a Comprehensive Disaster management Plan for the 112 year-old Mullaperiyar dam. That such a plan would be framed in three months was a promise made by revenue Minister K.P.Rajendran on November 16, when the dam and the inter-state dispute between Kerala and Tamil Nadu over raising its water –level were hot news.
But two months after the promise, the Disaster Management Division of the School of Environment Studies,MG University which was the plan, is to receive a government order that effect.
The Diaster management Division had tabled a proposal for conducting potential loss mapping and hazard zonation mapping in the regions around the dam two months ago. The plan was to cover Idukki,Kottayam,Ernakulam and Pathanamthitta, the four districts which would suffer the most if the dam break.
(The New Indian Express,20/01/07)
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