Do
you know how difficult it is to live each moment by listening to the footsteps
of death? We are counting every second now as the worth of our lives. We
count every heartbeat as the life span of our happiness or I can say our
safety. I represent those millions of people who live in that 36 kilometers
from Mullaperiyar dam to Idukky.
Its
about Mullaperiyar, the water bomb is about to explode over 30 lakes of people
spread across 3 districts in central Kerala.
Let’s
use some common sense here. In this earth, nothing is eternal. Whatever has
been made by human being, everything is vulnerable and expected to have an end.
This includes EVERYTHING like the satellites, building, dams, etc etc... In just
a word, human made. This dam has been constructed in 1895 which is 116
years ago. This dam is constructed in lime surkhi mortar when dam
engineering was at infancy. The dam has been given a life span of 50 years
and after that, it has to be decommissioned.
The
history says,
A lease deed was signed between the Travancore Princely State and British Presidency of Madras in 1886 which gave the British the right to
divert "all the waters" of the Mullaperiyar and its catchment to
British territory (the Madras Independence Indian Princeley States
When the treaty itself not existing now, why should we request
TN to approve for new dam? I don’t say that the mistake is only of Tamilnadu.
Since we never opposed, they have taken it for granted. 15 TMC of water at a
kind of free of cost. No one will say that, “hey man, your dam is in danger. Do
something; we will wait till you construct a new dam”. Isn’t it?
Same thing has happened here also. When we don’t have any
value for our lives, how can we expect that someone else will care about that?
Can you imagine the situation when 15 TMC of water is falling over us? Needless
to say, the aftereffect would be more than of an atom bomb.
The
dam and its associated area including the river, the starting point of the
river is completely under the
From
a study conducted by IIT Roorkee, Mullaperiyar falls under the regions with
earthquake possibility of intensity 6.4 and they also say that, the dam cannot
withstand an earthquake of intensity 5. In this year, already 22 times
earthquakes have been happened in these regions. Thankfully, with low
intensities. But how long we can be like this? Without doing anything, but
expecting that nothing will happen?
They
say, no one can impersonate other’s feelings until the same happen to them.
It’s applicable here also. When I was discussing with the same with some of my
friends, their response was “Oh, my home is not there, so no problem”. It
really shocked me. Its not about a few people, it’s about the human being…
Lakes of people. According to the pledge we used to take everyday morning in
our school, it’s about our brothers and sisters. They how could they say so? I
don’t understand. When something happens even in other countries like
earthquake in Japan
To
my dear brothers and sisters in Tamilnadu, we have never told that we won’t
give you water even if we break this dam down and construct a new one. For the
last 125 years, you are living your day to day life with the water given by us
with a very nominal price… Understand that and think as a human being…
How can you be so cruel to us? Don’t use the brain of your politicians, use
yours and think.. Yesterday also, your CM has told that we are
manipulating things. The dam is very secure and whatever Kerala says is not genuine.
Can’t she think and say out something? Doesn’t she have sense? Is she a human
being? I doubt. Jayalalitha and Karunnanidhi say that Govt of Kerala is
spreading fake news about the dam security and this will affect the
relationship between the people in Kerala and Tamilnadu. If any disaster
occurs, do you think that the rest of the keralites will be friendly with TNs?
What
you want? The destruction of Kerala? And whatever is left out, add the southern
part to Tamilnadu and northern part to Karnataka so that the name of Kerala
should be vanished from this world? Is that you want?
The
possible solution is only one. Construct a new dam. But, the current dam may
not be able withstand the pressure of construction if we start it now since the
proposed location of new dam is nearby to the old one. So, this also can lead
to a disaster. Only solution is, decommission the current dam, empty it,
demolish it and then construct a new dam. E.g. Dam
In
these days, my dreams are about those people who smell death in each and every
moments of their life. The people who are my life, my everything, My family, my
friends, my hometown which include 3 million people, The place I love since
when I opened my eyes for the very first time… each time I talk to my family
and friends, I pray to the Almighty to help me in talking to them again and
again and again… Can you imagine my pain? my tension? The intensity of my tears
when I pray? If yes, please understand that it’s not only of mine; it’s of 3
millions people’s… Its about their lives, it’s about their dreams. It’s about
their hopes. It’s about their prayers…
Pray
for us... for our long life… so that you shouldn’t say there were a few people
lived in the middle part of Kerala….So that the God’s own country shouldn’t be
only in memories..
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