Cauvery water row: Tension again in border areas
Tamil Nadu vehicles were stopped here at the SICOT junction and sent back to Hosur.
KRISHNAGIRI: Trouble resumed in the interstate border areas of Hosur in Krishnagiri district on Monday after a normal day on Sunday, following the modified Supreme court order reducing the release of Cauvery water to 12,000 cusecs per day till September 20, against the earlier order of 15,000 cusecs from the upper riparian state’s dams to Tamil Nadu.
On Monday, the busy Chennai-Bengaluru national highway was seen without vehicles plying on the road after bus transport services were totally stopped by both the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
“At around 12 noon, both the state police, as a precautionary measure, did not allow vehicles of their states to cross the border due to the untoward incidents reported in our state and also in Tamil Nadu” Amit Singh, SP for rural Bengaluru told Deccan Chronicle over phone.
Tamil Nadu vehicles were stopped here at the SICOT junction and sent back to Hosur. The trucks were asked to park in the NH and wait till the situation becomes normal.
Likewise, Karnataka vehicles were not allowed beyond the cement arch erected to mark the territory of the state at the entry point. The trial run of the TNSTC (Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation) buses that started on Friday evening was stopped much before the trouble resumed on Monday in the backdrop of the apex court’s fresh order today.
The TNSTC sources said that buses were stopped after coming to know about the incident in which a Tamil youth was brutally beaten up in Bengaluru by an angry pro-kannada mob.
In Dharmapuri, a group of Tamizhaga Vazhvurimai Katchi cadres burnt the effigy of the Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah to protest against the attack on the Tamil youth.
The river Cauvery at Hogenakkal in Dharmapuri district received 15,500 cusecs as inflow on Monday. Hogenakkal has been receiving steady inflows from September 5, thanks to the release from the dams in the upper riparian state as per the Supreme court order last week.
The inflow due to the release had increased to 15,000-plus cusecs from just 3,500 cusec since the first tranche of water release reached Biligundulu on Thursday, three days after the KRS and Kabini dams were opened in Karnataka.
Photo caption: police divert the vehicles back to Karnataka due to the tension in both the states.