Madurai District Bandh on December 22 Today - All Shops are closed in Madurai today

Various organisations have called for a bandh in Madurai district on December 22 to condemn the Kerala government’s attitude on the Mullaiperiyar dam issue. Pledging support, president of the TN Foodgrains Merchants’ Association S P Jeyapragasam, on Saturday, said that the farmers in Madurai and nearby districts would be deprived of water if Kerala went ahead with decommissioning the dam. A fast will be organised on the day at the MADITSSIA hall.

Madurai shows that Mullai Periyar Dam issue is important for Madurai, because that helps preventing any drought that could happen in future and that has happenned in past. That is the reason this dam was built to make Madurai, Sivaganga, Ramanathapuram belt to be wet for some food to be cultivated!