Thiruvananthapuram: After the demand for logging from around Baby Dam in Mullasyar, Tamil Nadu has asked the state government to reconstruct the road that connects Vallakkadavu to the site of the Mullaseriyar Dam, quoting that the damaged road inhibits the maintenance of the dam because the ingredients cannot be transported.
Special Division Executive Engineer Dam Periyar from the Water Resources Department of Tamil Nadu has proposed that he be ready to bear the burden of road reconstruction.
Demand from Tamil Nadu is currently under the consideration of the State Water Resources Department.
In the letter to the Idukki district collector, it was said that Causeway on Jalan Ghat from Vallakkadavu to the Dam Periyar was damaged during the 2018 flood on the Periyar River, and had not been restored correctly.
Say that only the temporary steps were taken at that time.
To recover the road by filling the damaged part with a sand bag and Hume RCC pipe in such a way that only light motorized vehicles can use the road, which is too slow.
Furthermore said that the whole road was once again washed in 2021 flooding, so it releases a dam site from Vallakkadavu, and it really blocks material transportation to the dam site.
Samil Nadu said that because the area was in Tiger in Periyar Tiger.
Reserve, his deputy director has prepared an estimate of RS 22 Lakh and the funds are expected from the Kerala Department of Irrigation.
The next letter stated that the Minor Irrigation Division official, Kattapana, was not aware of this development.
“It seems that the officials concerned do not consider the seriousness of this problem …
Please be asked to do what is needed to reconstruct Causeway permanently as early as possible.
If there are difficulties to mobilize funds to reconstruct this crossing, the undersigned to mobilize funds from The Tamil Nadu government, “said the letter.
Senior officials in the Water Resources Department said that the opening of the leaves of the Tamil Nadu Nadu Dam was the main reason for the total damage to the road, which until then.
“The decision on road reconstruction cannot be taken by the Ministry of Water Resources only, because the land falls in the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Forestry.
The state is likely to take a careful approach in this case because the previous decision allows TN to fall trees to become controversial,” said A senior official in the department.