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The dam, standing 500 metres high and 200 metres wide, ranks among the largest built by the KSEB in recent years.
Tungabhadra is the second-largest ‘Surkhi’ dam after Kerala’s Mullaperiyar reservoir.
People in Kerala panchayat go broke paying for drinking water.
A one-meter-high and 40-meter-long check dam is being constructed at Rs 22 crore under the Kerala Water Authority's Jala Jeevan project.
In 2018 too, when the water level had receded, the roof of the temple was visible.
More than 4,000 people were evacuated in Orsk as swathes of the city of 230,000 were flooded.
It was on Sunday that Gopi and Sajeev, residing in 301 Colony, drowned while returning home on a fibre boat after purchasing groceries from Poopara.
Night travel (7 pm to 6 am) has been banned along the Udumbanchola-Cheriyar stretch on the Munnar-Kumily state highway from Monday till further notice.
The district administration said the water level of all dams in Palakkad has risen following good rainfall in the past two days.
It was on Thursday evening that the man, who was on a visit to the Malampuzha gardens, jumped into the dam.
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