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Durai Murugan CHENNAI: Expressing surprise over the reported statement of Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh that he would clear the Palar reservoir project, proposed by Andhra Pradesh, in 15 days, Public Works and Law Minister Durai Murugan told the Assembly on Friday that he would explain to him Tamil nadu’s case. Intervening in a debate on the demand for grants to PWD, Mr. Durai Murugan said the Union Minister might not have been adequately briefed about the issue. Even if it was not so, he [Mr. Durai Murugan] would take upon himself the task of explaining the State’s case and impress upon Mr. Jairam Ramesh that it would not be proper to clear the project when the matter was pending before the Supreme Court. The Minister was responding to observations of C. Shanmugavelu (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam), who referred to news reports in this regard. In February 2006, Tamil Nadu moved the Supreme Court to restrain Andhra Pradesh from building a reservoir across the Palar at Ganeshapuram in Kuppam taluk of Andhra Pradesh. The court, in its order in January 2008, on a suit filed by Tamil Nadu, opined that after hearing Andhra Pradesh, the Union government may settle the dispute between the States. The Minister said so far, the Central Water Commission (CWC) had held two meetings. It had advised Andhra Pradesh not to go ahead with the project. At the last meeting (held in August 2008), it was decided to constitute a task force. Earlier, initiating the debate, the Minister stated that at the meeting, it was decided that Andhra Pradesh would provide the desired information over and above it had furnished earlier, and the CWC would carry out studies on water availability jointly with the States. The outcome of the study would form the basis for further information. The CWC was yet to commence the study. Tamil Nadu engineers visited the site in December and found that no work was in progress at Ganeshapuram. On the Neyyar water controversy, Mr. Durai Murugan informed the House that the State in May had again sent a fresh draft agreement to Kerala for consent. According to Tamil Nadu, the Neyyar is an inter-State river and 9,200 acres in the Vilvancode taluk of Kanyakumari district, which got the river water till February 2004, should continue to receive it. The State had mooted signing an agreement. But, Kerala says that Neyyar is not an inter-State river. On the review of the Parambikulam-Aliyar Project agreement, the Minister said after the meeting of Chief Secretaries of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in February, Tamil Nadu’s Principal Secretary (Public Works) and Kerala’s Additional Chief Secretary held two rounds of discussion in Thiruvananthapuram and Chennai in April.
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