Everything about Vaigai River totally explained
The
Vaigai is a
river in
Madurai,
Tamil Nadu state of southern
India. The actual name is Vaiyai in
Tamil and the name has been referred as vaigai. It originates in the
Periyar Plateau of the
Western Ghats range, and flows northeast through the
Kambam Valley, which lies between the
Palni Hills to the north and the
Varushanad Hills to the south. The
Vattaparai Falls are located on this river. As it rounds the eastern corner of the Varushanad Hills, the river turns southeast, running through the region of
Pandya Nadu.
Madurai, the largest city in the Pandya Nadu region and its ancient capital, lies on the Vaigai. The river empties into the
Palk Strait in
Ramanathapuram District.fdf
The main tributaries of the river Vaigai are, the river Suruliyaru, the river Mullaiyaaru, the river Varaganadi and the river Manajalaru. All these rivers join with the great Vaigai river nearer to the places around the
Vaigai Dam which is situated in
Theni district.
Vaigai gets major feed from the
Periyar Dam in Kumuli in
Kerala. As the Kerala government is refusing to increase the storage level, Vaigai river ends up dry very often. The water never reaches
Madurai, let alone flowing into places past Madurai.
The Periyar Dam was built in 1895 by John Pennycuick, who implemented a plan proposed over a century earlier by
Pradani Muthirulappa Pillai of Ramnad.
"Greater than the mother bearing child/Greater than the child that's born/Every breath is Periyar/Every word is Periyar/In every place, in all the world/As far as Periyar water flows/Your name will stand-Pennycuick-your name/Though written on water, will always stand".
That is how Anthony Muthu Pillai (1863-1929) had paid tributes in Tamil to John Pennycuick, the engineer who had taken up the "audacious and unprecedented feat of...engineering" for transferring some water from the Periyar river in Travancore State to the Vaigai basin in Madras Presidency. This basin was described by
Poet and
lyricist Vairamuthu, who hails from this area: "It is a different world. Another planet on the surface of the earth. Ignored by the clouds, cursed by nature and dry land, passed by the Gods with their eyes tightly shut..."
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