VS moves High Court over Mullaperiyar issue

Tuesday, December 13, 2011: Opposition leader and CPM stalwart VS Achuthanandan today filed a plea in the Kerala High Court in connection with the Mullaperiyar dam issue which has seen Kerala and Tamil Nadu at loggerheads.
The petition was filed seeking the intervention of the state as well as the central governments citing the imminent danger posed by the 116-year-old reservoir upon the lives of 40 lakh people.
Kerala has been pressing for its twin demands: reducing the water level to 120 feet and replacing the 116-year old reservoir with a new one.
The issue has snowballed in the last few weeks with Kerala raising the pitch for the new dam citing safety concerns about the existing structure. Tamil Nadu has charged Kerala with whipping up panic and moved the Supreme Court for a direction to deploy CISF at the dam site, the scene of protests.

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