Parambikulam Aliyar Agreement

For some time, Kerala has been trying to meet at the highest level to resolve some issues related to the agreement. It has complained in the past that Tamil Nadu is not complying with certain provisions of the agreement. Tamil Nadu, however, claimed that it had supplied Kerala with water despite some of the „special“ conditions of the agreement. After the meeting, the two prime ministers jointly addressed the media and said they had decided to review the water-sharing agreement launched 60 years ago. The Parambikulam Aliyar project provides water for drinking and watering in the districts of Coimbatore, Tlruppur and Erode in Tamil Nadu and Palakkad in Kerala. The agreement will also study the diversion and integration of rivers in Anamalaiyar and Nirar-Nallar. The agreement succeeded in diverting and integrating eight rivers to the west, six in the Anamalai Hills – Anamalaiyar, Sholayar, Thunacadavu, Nirar, Peruvaripallam and Parambikulam – and two in the plains – Aliyar and Palar – to the benefit of drought-risk areas in the Coimbatore and Erode districts of Tamil Nadu. When all elements of the diversion and storage works provided for in the agreement are completed, 30.5 TMC of water per year will be diverted from Kerala to Tamil Nadu. With differences of opinion between the two states on the agreement in the past, this meeting aims to compensate for the differences. „The government has set up all the facilities for the committee.

They have never seized their right to a joint state board of directors for the prevention and control of water pollution. You have never done anything to recover the water in accordance with the agreement. Therefore, the government decided that it was not necessary to participate in the discussions on the agreement. The new committee includes members who have been thoroughly researched on the agreement,“ the minister said. The PAP is seen as a symbol of cooperation between the two neighboring countries in diverting excess water from one state to irrigate the dry areas of the other state and provides for the diversion of eight western rivers to Tamil Nadu for the benefit of coimbatore and Tiruppur districts. . . .