Will any good come from the Prime Minister to save lakhs of people of Kerala from Mullaperiyar disaster?

The latest is that Union Minister for Science and Technology Ashwinikumar has said Mullaperiyar dam is spick and span. What science and technology he was referring to while giving a fitness certificate to the fragile 116-year-old dam is not known.
He blandly states that experts have given the clean chit. He may have been referring to the affirmation of people like Thatte whose biased position was well known to everybody.

The Prime Minister had sought a salubrious climate for taking measures to bring in a settlement, probably by convening a meeting of the Chief Ministers of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

The Prime Minister had gone to Tamil Nadu for some other programmes recently and on the occasion DMK leader Muthuvel Karunanidhi wanted the Prime Minister to call off the measures he had initiated earlier to press national disaster management steps with regard to a possible break of the Mullaperiyar dam. The person who should have persuaded the Tamil Nadu leaders to come to the negotiating table has simply obliged the Tamil Nadu leaders. He has totally ignored the interests of the Kerala people.
By mollifying the Tamil leaders he had secured the support of the DMK in the FDI issue. It is another matter that the FDI bill had to be jettisoned.

Now for passing the budget and finance bills, he may get the support of these fringe groups. And Mullaperiyar would be a fine issue with which he can get the support of the Tamil leaders.

Who were opposing the passing of the Dam Safety Bill 2010? It was Tamil Nadu which strongly opposed the bill which had provisions for the states in which the dams are located to initiate various safety measures.

In the case of dams like Mullaperiyar, which is located in Kerala, we may get authority to proceed properly to ensure safety for the people here. The Centre had done nothing to have the bill passed.

What is the crucial point is that Kerala alone will have to take strong measures, whatever these are, to ensure safety for the people of Kerala by averting a breach of the weak Mullaperiyar dam.