DISCUSSION WITH PRIME MINISTER
Prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday discussed with his senior cabinet colleagues the Mullaperiyar dam issue over which Tamil Nadu and Kerala have been at loggerheads. The discussion took place after the cabinet meeting during which finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, Home
Prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday discussed with his senior cabinet colleagues the Mullaperiyar dam issue over which Tamil Nadu and Kerala have been at loggerheads. The discussion took place after the cabinet meeting during which finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, Home
minister P Chidambaram, Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar and Water
Resources minister Pawan Kumar Bansal were present.
Singh had been meeting a number of delegations from Tamil Nadu and
Kerala over the past week who demanded his intervention in the issue.
While Tamil Nadu wants the level of the dam, located in Kerala's
Idukki district, to be raised to 142 feet from 136 feet, while Kerala
wants to build a new dam near the existing structure.
Kerala chief minister Oomen Chandy had met Singh last week while his
Tamil Nadu counterpart J Jayalalithaa had written three letters to the
prime minister in this regard.
Singh's meeting with his senior colleagues also came in the wake of
the Centre inviting officials from both states for discussions on the
issue later this month.
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