Idukki: Shutters of Idukki would be opened within a week, if heavy inflow to the dam were to continue, said Electricity Minister MM Mani.
Although there was a court order to raise water level to 142 ft, efforts were on to release water arriving at a consensus. If not so, he jested, people in Kerala would die of a surfeit of water while people in Tamil Nadu would do so by its lack.
Currently, water level of Cheruthoni reservoir stands at 2392 ft. According to official, shutters would be opened in the event of water levels reaching 2400 ft. Already a blued alert has been issued to the people living in the downstream of the Cheruthoni dam.