The Mullaperiyar Dam

The negotiations in the issue of Mullaperiyar Dam between two states TamilNadu and Kerala failed as it appears to be a bone of contention between them.

What is the History of Mullaperiyar Dam and What exactly the controversy is?

History:

 Mullaperiyar Dam with a level of 152ft was built across Periyar River in Kerala during 1887-1895 by British Government. The Dam was built under the supervision of Benny Cook. The Dam was built for the purpose of diverting the waters of the west-flowing Periyar River eastwards through a tunnel since it caused wide-spread floods in the Travancore Region. The agreement of lease for 999 years between two states had made during British Rule. According to the agreement the TamilNadu government holds the authority. The Dam provides irrigation waters to nearly 80000hectares of land in TamilNadu areas like Madurai, Sivaganga, Ramananthapuram and Dindigul

Controversy:

The Kerala Government, since 1970 expressed its fear over the Dam’s level(152ft) which would account for 3.5million lives of people living in Kerala. With the intervention of Central Water Commission that looks into the matters of Dam’s safety the water level was reduced to 136ft in 1979. Later the water level was raised by TamilNadu Govt. to 142 ft to which the Kerala Govt. opposed. The Kerala Govt. demands for the construction of new Dam which was opposed by the TamilNadu Govt.

Current Issues-November

• India's Human Development Index Rank:UN ranked India at position 134 out of 187 countries in terms of Human Development Index.India ranked 119 out of 169 countries according to 2010 report by UNDP. The study observed that the life expectancy at birth in India has increased by 10.1 percent a year over last two decades.The Human Development Index value for 2011 was 0.547 where the country is positioned in the medium human development category.India's HDI reached 0.57 from 0.344 showing increment of about 59% and an average annual increase of  about 1.5 percent.The top 5 countries are:Norway,Australia,Netherlands,US,New Zealand. Neighbouring countries Pakistan ranked at 145 and Afghanistan at 146.

• Gender Inequality Index :Reported that in India,Parliamentary seats held for women are 10.7 percent where 26.6 percent of  women have reached a secondary or high level of education compared to 50.7 percent of  their male counterparts.For every 1 lakh births 230 women die from pregnancy related causes and adolescent fertility rate is 86.3 per 1000 births.

          Female participation in labour market is 32.8 % compared to 81.1 % of men.

• Top Maoist Leader Koteswararao alias Kishanji was encountered at Burishol village in W.Bengal.They were searched in jungles at Nalbani,Lalbani,Kushbani but were last found at Burishol and were killed.

• Union Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar was slapped by a youth named Harvinder Singh after shouting slogans against corruption and inflation.The person assaulted the former Telecom minister SukhRam.Anna Hazare's  reaction to the attack "Was it only one slap?"angered the congress party questioning the Gandhian principle of  Hazare.

• Veteran Indian Cricketer Rahul Dravid became the second person in the Test Cricket History to complete 13000 runs besides completing 1000 runs this year with West Indies. Batting Icon Sachin Tendulkar was the first person to achieve 13000 runs and is now leading with more than 15000 runs.

Try Once Again

The Quote said by Lord Buddha "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm". Our aims and goals become fruits when they turn into Success. Achieving Success is not a simple matter.There will be many sleepless nights and a lot of hard work behind a person's Success.No matter some may reach it through by Luck.Even you should do hard work to withstand with what you have gained by luck.If not the luck will leave you in a short span of time.

 "Purity,Patience, Perseverance" are the 3P's which are essential that work in with your efforts.Don't blame yourselves that you'll achieve success with a little effort.First of all you should be true to yourself and your thoughts.Success does not come in a night.It is a great deed.Failures may occur.But neither discourage your self that you are not eligible to nor blame others for.Don't hesitate to take a step to "Try Once Again".Rather than escaping from it that you can't,stick to your goal and work for it until you reach it.It is a relation which will ever lastingly be with us with the attempts we make.Our efforts won't go in vain if we are sincere towards it.

Definition Of Life

"Life" is an entity having the extremes as "Birth and Death" .No one can even predict either the Birth or the Death of a being.It resembles the behavior of  time "Once gone will never come back".