Possibility for potential floods in future haunts the LDF government in Kerala. So government plans to construct four more major dams in the state. The sites identified for the construction are Peringalkuthu, Pooyamkutty, Achankovil and Kuriyarkutty.
The reason for such a decision is two fold. One is: to make people convince that last August flood was natural and no minister or the KSEB has involvement in making the flood by opening simultaneously all the dams. Second is: an eye on the huge commission it would generate in the purchase of cement and steel rods. Also, there is an eye in the sale of trees in dam sites.
Whatever it may be, this crafty plan is unlikely to work out in Kerala in the immediate future because the new generation is not unaware that the ecological damage that dams make is unfathomably complex and dire.
K A Solaman
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