Bhavani check dam issue: TN to move Supreme Court

A week after writing to the Centre urging its intervention in the Bhavani check dam issue involving neighbouring Kerala, the Tamil Nadu government today said it will now move the Supreme Court on the matter.
"Instructions have been given to lawyers in this regard and we will be moving the apex court on the Bhavani issue today or tomorrow," Chief Minister O Panneerselvam said.
He said in such inter-state disputes, the Centre is petitioned to redress the problem but that there was so far, no response from the Union Government to a letter written by him to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Panneerselvam was responding to Opposition Leader MK Stalin who raised the issue in the state Assembly while participating in the motion to thank the Governor for his address to the House last week.
Panneerselvam had, on January 24, urged Modi to advise Kerala to immediately halt the construction work of check dams across the inter-state Bhavani river, saying the projects would affect the flow of water to the state.
Citing reports that Kerala "plans to construct six check dams" across the Bhavani, a tributary of the Cauvery, he had said this had caused a great concern and anxiety among the people of Tamil Nadu who were dependent on the Cauvery basin for irrigation and drinking water requirements.