Chennai: PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss on Saturday questioned the TVK govt’s reluctance to release the Tirupugazh committee report on measures to prevent flooding in Chennai.In a statement, Anbumani said there was no reason to keep under wraps a report prepared with public funds. “TVK govt should have said that the DMK govt was wrong in not releasing the report and that it would be released immediately,” he said.Tirupugazh committee, headed by former NDMA additional secretary K Tirupugazh, was constituted in Nov 2021 following the devastating Chennai floods. It submitted an interim report in May 2022 and its final report on March 14, 2023, after 17 months of field studies and data analysis. The report contained 161 recommendations, Anbumani said, adding that the DMK govt had claimed that 101 of them had been implemented without making the details public.With the northeast monsoon about two months away, Anbumani urged chief minister C Joseph Vijay to release the report immediately and implement its recommendations to prevent Chennai from facing another major flood.Revenue and disaster management minister K A Sengottaiyan recently told the Assembly that the state govt had constituted a seven-member expert committee headed by commissioner of revenue administration N Muruganandam to recommend flood-prevention measures.
