
Water level in Mullaperiyar dam stands at 131.55 feet
The Hindu
Current water levels in Mullaperiyar and Vaigai dams, along with rainfall data for Thekkadi in the last 24 hours.
Water level in Mullaperiyar dam stood at 131.55 feet (permissible level is 142 ft.) with an inflow of 675 cusecs and a discharge of 400 cusecs. In Vaigai dam, the water level was 63.52 ft. (maximum level is 71 ft.) with an inflow of 205 cusecs and a discharge of 969 cusecs. Combined storage in Periyar credit was 7,481.81 mcft. Thekkadi recorded a rainfall of 2.6 mm in the last 24 hours ending at 6 a.m. on Friday.

Away from the memorial of saint-composer Thyagaraja in Thiruvaiyaru, where his 179th aradhana is marked by five days of uninterrupted concerts, unchavritti and rendering of the Pancharatna kritis, a parallel aradhana is under way in Thanjavur. In the narrow Varagappa Iyer Lane off the bustling South Main Street, devotees queue up at a house named after Thyagaraja. It is here that the idols of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Shatrughna and Anjaneya, worshipped by Thyagaraja himself, are preserved, along with a portrait of the saint-composer said to have been drawn by his disciples.












