Bhopal:

Under the chairmanship of Additional Secretary, Water Resources Department, Ashish Kumar, for the circumstances of the damage of Karam Dam of Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh, the reasons and the responsibility of the responsible officers, and for suggestions in this regard that such incidents should not happen again in future. A 4-member inquiry committee has been constituted.

Apart from Ashish Kumar in the committee, Dr. Rahul Kumar Jaiswal, Scientist of National Institute of Hydrology, Bhopal, Deepak Satpute, Chief Engineer of Water Resources Department, Bureau of Design and Hydel, and Director of Dam Safety Bodhi, Anil Singh will be there.

The committee will submit its report to the state government in five days.

Significantly, a major dam accident in MP's Dhar district was averted.

The news of leakage in the dam came on August 11. After this, a major accident was prevented by running Operation Caram day and night.

Water was given a new way by running the machines for three days.

During this, the entire administrative staff including three cabinet ministers, collector, commissioner, SP was gathering.

There was also a plan to lay gunpowder if the rocks blocked the way.

In Bhopal too, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan would sit in the situation room till late at night 2-3, along with top officials of all departments, from Friday itself, then the strategy used to be made from early morning itself.

Every moment information was being sent to the Prime Minister and the Home Minister, it was decided that the water of the dam would be emptied by making a bypass.

The strategy that was made was that the dam should be emptied, if the water had been removed by breaking the wall immediately, it could have caused havoc in many dams.

Therefore, it was decided that water should be removed by making a bypass channel, first the water comes out less and then increases, so that if the wall is cut, a large part will come out, will not harm the village.

The bypass was planned from 6 o'clock, the water started coming out at 9:30.

The exit from the situation of Karam Dam is the highest example of disaster management.


Due to the hard work of all the characters of Operation Karam in three days, the water which was 15.49 MCM on Thursday, was 2.93 MCM saved on Sunday night, that is, the danger was averted.