THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:
The Petition's Committee of the Kerala Assembly has expressed concern over the negligence of the State Government in retaining the Parambikulam-Aliyar Project water sharing agreement with Tamil Nadu unchanged for more than 18 years since 1988, the year in which it had fallen due for review.
In its report submitted to the Assembly on Thursday, the committee said the agreement was signed in 1970 with retrospective effect from 1958 and should have been subjected to a thorough review in 1988 and changes incorporated in it based on the present situations. Neither the Governments that had ruled the State since then nor the officials in charge of inter-State river water affairs showed interest in doing this.
The committee said Kerala seldom received the entire water due to it as per the agreement. The backlog in water release kept increasing from year to year and reached a stage where the State would have to write off the old dues.
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