As deadline looms, Keralam’s Water Resources department forms additional panel for Comprehensive Dam Safety Evaluation on its dams

With the December deadline for completing the first Comprehensive Dam Safety Evaluation (CDSE) looming, Keralam’s Water Resources department has constituted an additional panel of experts to speed up the exercise on the dams managed by it. The panel has five members headed by Joshy K.A., a former Chief Engineer of Keralam’s Irrigation department whose expertise is in dam safety and hydrological safety, the department said in a September 14 order on the panel’s creation. Other members include Akshaya Kumar Das, a former Chief Engineer and Special Secretary of the Odisha government’s Department of Water Resources.