SC panel members to visit Mullaperiyar today

KOTTAYAM: Two members of the Supreme Court-appointed empowered committee on Mullaperiyar dam visited Lower Periyar, Idukki and Cheruthony dams on Friday.C D Thatte and D K Mehta, technical members of the committee, will stay in Thekkady on Friday night and visit the Mullaperiyar dam on Saturday. Mullaperiyar special cell chairman M K Parameswaran Nair and member James Wilson, irrigation department chief engineer P Lathika, KSEB member Annamma John and KSEB generation chief engineer Karuppan Kutty accompanied the committee members.The visit by the members assumes significance in the wake of recurring tremors experienced in the vicinity of the dam and the tension prevailing between Kerala and Tamil Nadu over the safety of the dam.