Jaya writes to PM on Mullaperiyar dam issue

Thursday, 09 February 2012: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the controversy surrounding the Mullaperiyar dam issue.
In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, she referred to reports of Kerala deciding “unilaterally” to install real time monitoring system for water build up, calling it yet another attempt to exacerbate fears in Kerala about its safety.
She said reports suggested Kerala had entered into an agreement with the Ministry of Science and Technology to install “real time monitoring system for water build up.”

Jaya writes to PM on Mullaperiyar dam issue

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the controversy surrounding the Mullaperiyar dam issue.
In her letter, the AIADMK chief requested the Prime Minister to advise the government of Kerala to ensure that miscreants refrained from disturbing public order and disrupting normal life.
She further wrote that the retrofitted Mullaperiyar dam was safe and was functioning as good as new."The government of Kerala should be advised to desist from the approach for building a new dam and not to escalate the issue," wrote the Tamil Nadu chief minister.
She pointed that the matter was sub-judice before the Supreme Court and the empowered committee.