I seriously doubt that this TN is a part of Pakistan!!! They are not concerned about anyone else in the world. For them, these corrupted politicians and movie stars are Gods. Believe in what ever they say...
And you people are always talking about 1800 years old Grand Anicut, How can you compare Such a huge dam like Mullaperiyar to Grand Anicut? Do you guys know that the 1800 years old Grand Anicut is less that 5 meter and have no water in it for more that half of the year? But, Mullaperiyar is more that 54m in height and holding almost full of its capacity through out the year. In Grand Anicut, they can repair the whole dam during the summer season. It is not possible in mullaperiyar's case. In fact, there is NO real repairs done yet in this dam... It is also situated in an earth quake prone area... Plus, it is situated around 3000ft, above the sea level. A destruction of this dam will destroy at least 2/3 other dams.
Now, think about the situation if the dam is destroyed. It not only affect Kerala, but it also gonna kill millions of Tamilans. How? If the dam is destroyed, TN will never even gonna get water frm Kerala... That means, all your farms will dry out.. You will have no drinking water.. No electricity since most of the power plants have to shut down...
Mullaperiyar- the real lowdown
1. We had been hearing about Mullaperiyar issue for quite some time and nothing has happened to it, despite quite a few tremors in the dam site. Is this just a wave of sensation created by media? Mullapperiyar dam is weak and vulnerable. This has been confirmed by several expert committees. Each tremor , each flood weakens it further . We are just plain lucky that the dam did not fail till today. Lady luck may not be with us forever. It may fail today, it may fail tomorrow. The risk is real. It is not a hoax. 2. What’s wrong with the dam? Why can’t we fix it? The dam is very old. Not many dams of its age are in service today. The binding material used for the dam is lime. It has leached with age. 3. But Tamil Nadu did some reinforcement in the recent decades. The reinforcement work did more harm than good to the dam. This has also been confirmed by the experts . There is a horizontal full length crack on the dam, in addition to hollow insides caused by the concreting work, leached lime, breakages and leaks. 4. Isn’t this dam thing a game of mud sling between ruling party and opposition of the State? No. All political parties of the state stand united, since it is a question of life of millions. They stood so during the previous Government, they continue to do so during the current Government. This is not a political game, this is real. 5. If it is so, why nothing is happening? It is a complicated legal and political battle between states. Things are before the apex court and it is not so easy to resolve. One state’s demand cannot work out so easily. 6. Mullaperiyar is not that big a dam. It is just 1200 feet long and 150 feet tall. Even if it fails, it may not cause deaths by millions . Especially, considering its immediate flood area is mostly forests. The disaster will not be just from the failure of one dam. If Mullapperiyar dam breaches, it will discharge millions of cubic feet of waters downstream and Idukki Arch Dam, will not be able to stand even a small portion of it. This will cause failure of Idukki Dam, which will cause of the worst tragedies Kerala has ever known. It is almost certain that Idukki Dam will fail if Mullapperiyar breaches. 7. What would happen if Idukki Dam fails? The devastating effect of Idukki Dam failure is just unimaginable. Experts say three districts of Kerala will be totally destroyed. Evacuation of people from these three heavily populated districts sensing a dam breach is just impossible. 8. But what would be the impact? If a dam breaches it will be just a flood, right? Wrong. Idukki dam can discharge 75000 million cubic feet of water. It weighs 22 Billion tons. Dam breaches do not cause just floods. It can even make a landmass disappear instantly. People may die in millions, forests and habitable landscape may get eroded. 9. But Tamil Naduness to the people , place pressure on Center to take urgent actions and save lives by millions. 11. Which political party should I stand with? Which organization is going to do it right? All parties stand united for our lives. Support Kerala state, its current ministers, there is no party politics in this. This is a question of survival, there just cannot be two opinion on this. Be part of any party, any campaign, any movement, any activity for it.