PARAMBIKULAM EMBANKMENT DAM

The Parambikulam Embankment Dam on the Parambikulam River located in the Palakkad District of Kerala State in the Western Ghats of Kerala is considered to be the largest in India The Dam is the 10th of similar Dams in the World.This Dam has a capacity of 69,165Cu.mt X100 The largest Embankment Dam is situated in Pakistan.The capacity is 148500 Cu.mt The next one of the largest is in USA.capacity96,050C.mt This Dam is owned &controlled by Tamil Naadu.How this Dam on a river in Kerala is owned by Tamilnaadu&whether there is any dispute on it like the Mullaperyaar dam is not readily known to me. similarly a few other similar dams are owned by Tamil Naadu.They are Mullaperiyaar Dam,Thunakkadavu It is well known that there is dispute in regard to the ownership of the Dam Mullaperiyaar. Similar disputes do exist in respect of these Dams mentioned above is unknown. One aspect of Dams built on the banks of Rivers of Kerala is that Tamilnaadu has a fancy of claiming ownership of them by virtue of concluding some contract agreemen or other to stress the ownershipv despite they are on the banks of Rivers the major part of which flows in Kerala the source being Western Ghats. One other peculiarity is invariably every year Tamil Nadu stops supply of water to the Chitur District of Palakkadu which results in the destroyal of Agricultural Paddy fields. The compensation for such losses usually born by the central Government when their representatives visit Kerala to assess the magnitude of draught in the state in such a pattern that this has become a routine matter every year. The central government instead of taking responsibility for providing Funds to the areas of Draught ,should direct the Tamil Naadu Government to pay compensation simply for the reason that the Pddy fields are subjected todestroyal as a result of stopping water under the agreement. Disputes between states arise as a result of there being no proper clauses are incorporated in the initial Contract Agreement The consignor(one who delivers) should be made responsible to compensate the Consignee(one who receives)for breaches of contracts such as stoppages. JUsually such suppy agrreements when drafted a proper&binding clauses are not incorporated to fix responsibity for losses sustained by the consignee. When dispute arises &goes to Courts the existing clauses in the agrrements are subjected to scrutiny&why the root cause for making any binding clause not made is not looked into.This way the consigner always get away with the need for compensation payments. Now in the case of Parambikulam Dam Tamil naadu has stopped supply of water to the Kerala state stating non availability of water to resume suppy. The blame goes to Rain&weather as these are not the agencies to supply. This Blog is written with reference to a teport on the Malayala manorama edition in internet dt18th March2013 in which a loss of more than Rs 98 Crores due to the destroyal of Agricultural products in the Chitur District of Palakkad.Plakkad is the main source of maintaining paddy fields in Kerala 10,172 Hectors of paddy fields were rendered as destryed for want of water to be supplied by Tamil Naadu under agreement relating to Parambikulam Aliyar project.It is also reported the agriculture of Paddy in many Panchayats of the sector The losses are reported by the Agriculture department of the Government according to this media report A further scrutiny indicated that a contract agreement was concluded between the officials of Kerala&Tamil naadu in October 2012 According to this agreement the Tamil Naadu had agreed to supply 1250 mcft water to Kerala as against the demand of 1340mcft by kerala. The Board of meeting between the two states was attended to by the the CE of Tamil Naadu Electricity board,the CE of Kerala water resources Deptt&the CE of Kerala Electricity Board besides 30 other engineers from both sides. (EXPRESS NEWS ERVICE-COIMBATORE 17th October2012 is relevant in this context) The fate of the loss &details of compensation are awaited. THERE ARE 10 MORE SIMILAR DAMS ofPARAMBIKULAM IN KERALA. They are Aliyar,Karuvanam,Neyyar,Periyar,Wadakkancherri,Pothencode,Peechi,Idukki&Vazhari dam on which Kerala depends for water. Still the fate of Kerala which was once upon a time considered as state of water is a pitiable one. The present situation is the summer is likely to be extremely severe this year e all over the world due to changed conditions of environment some natural&some manmade ,the nation particularly Kerala is going to make hue&cry "WATER WATER EVERY WHERE NOT A DROP TO DRINK" The people who destroy,Trees,Plants,Rivers by digging for building materials like sand,&those responsible for changing Kerala into a concrete Land instead of the Traditional state of Water,Trees &Mountains should think twice about how they are pushing their kiths&kins to disaster not long away now. SreedharanMundanat !8th March2013 11-25 Hrs(IST) In a news item appeared in the media today (refer to Internet edition Dt 15th of April2013,the blog I had written Needs a bit of amendment. The latest news says That the Kerala government is filing a suit in the Supreme Court regarding the violation of The provisions of the Contract concluded between Kerala& Tamil Naadu. The need for suitable clauses in the contract was exactly I stressed upon the Blog I wrote on 18 th March 2013 the intention of the Government in filing the case against Tamil Naadu is to insist upon the compensation to Overcome the Loss sustained by the Kerala State because of not supplying the water agreed to in the Contract Agreement. So the Blog of 18 th March needs reading with the present news.the Suit is likely to be filed within a couple of days according to the Media Report SreedharanMundanat 15 th April2013