TN voice unheard on Dam Safety Bill: Jaya

CHENNAI: Strongly objecting to some clauses of the draft Dam Safety Bill (DSB) 2010, which are detrimental to the interests of Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday sought urgent intervention by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to sort out the issue.In a letter to the PM seeking an immediate response, she said the Standing Committee on Water Resources and the Ministry of Water Resources have failed to consider the objections raised by TN. “My government’s apprehensions are genuine and if they are not addressed, it would be tantamount to taking away the control over the maintenance of the dam from the State which owns the dam, consequently affecting hundreds of farmers and agricultural production,” she said.