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Parambikulam Dam

• Delete “objectionable sub-clauses” from draft Dam Safety Bill: Jayalalithaa

  Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday called upon Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to direct the Union Water Resources Ministry to delete “objectionable sub-clauses” from the draft Dam Safety Bill 2010. In a letter to the Prime Minister, she recalled her previous communication, sent in July 2011, in which she had urged him to ensure that certain modifications/additions to the draft Bill were carried out so that interests of the State were protected. Then, it had been referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources.

  • 19/03/2012

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Dam Safety
    • Ministry Of Water Resources
    • Parambikulam Dam
    • Farmers
    • Dams
    • Agriculture
    • Dams/ Irrigation
    • Tamil Nadu

• Parambikulam: Kerala to seek more water

  Kerala will demand more water and control over water regulating structures in its territory at the talks with Tamil Nadu on review of the Parambikulam-Aliyar Project (PAP) agreement to be held here on Friday. Chief Secretaries of the two States will lead the talks supported by seven-member teams consisting of higher officials.

  • 30/05/2008

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Water Distribution
    • Aliyar
    • Parambikulam Dam
    • Kerala
    • Tamil Nadu

• PAP: State likely to cite riparian rights

  Kerala is examining the possibilities of exercising its riparian rights to seek higher allocation from the Parambikulam-Aliyar rivers in view of the steep increase in utilisation of water from the river basins of the Bharathapuzha and the Chalakudi. The matter was discussed at a high-level review meeting convened by Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan here on Monday in preparation of the Chief Secretary-level conference to be held in the State capital on May 30.

  • 27/05/2008

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Rivers
    • Aliyar
    • Parambikulam Dam
    • Kerala