From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network
Bengaluru, Oct 5: Vehicular movement along the border of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, which had been suspended for almost a month near Hosur in the wake of the Cauvery water sharing dispute, has finally resumed on Wednesday.
The inter-state transport between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu had been stopped and vehicle with Karnataka registration numbers (KA) were allowed to ply till Hosur and had to return while those coming from Tamil Nadu side (TN) had to return from Atthibele near Hosur since the trouble broke out over the Cauvery issue.
But for the first time in the last 29 days, vehicles including cars and trucks with KA registration numbers were able to enter Jujuvadi near Hosur. However, the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) buses are yet to resume their operations inside Tamil Nadu.
Vehicles with TN registration numbers entered Atthibele on the Karnataka side from Wednesday morning.
The bus services remain suspended, as Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation officials said a decision on resuming the services could be taken only after monitoring the situation.
Inter-State movement of buses remained suspended since September 6 and services were operated only for a day on September 11.
As services remained suspended, people from both the sides had to walk for a kilometre and cross the border to board buses.
Senior police officials said protection is given to vehicles that enter both the States and normalcy is expected to resume soon.
The resumption of vehicular movement on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border follows the decision by the Siddaramaiah government to release water to the neighbouring State till October 17 and the Supreme Court’s order to ask for a fact-finding study of both States by a team of experts and engineers from October 7 till October 17 for the apex court to take a decision at the next hearing on October 18.
Incidentally, Karnataka’s original special leave petition is coming up for final hearing before a 3-member bench of the Supreme Court on October 18.