THENI: Striking police personnel have been deployed along the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border in the district following the tense situation prevailing in Kerala over the Mullaperiyar dam dispute, police said.Additional Superintendent of Police, Selvaraj, who is leading the striking force deployed at Bodi Mettu and Cumbum Mettu areas, said they feared the tense situation in the neighbouring state could spill over into Tamil Nadu.The Mullaperiyar dam dispute has escalated following Kerala's push for the construction of a new dam in place of the existing 116-year-old reservoir and Tamil Nadu's opposition to the proposal.Kerala says fears about the weakness of the 116-year-old dam had increased since the area around the site had been shaken by 26 tremors in the last five months alone, a contention rejected by Tamil Nadu.Tamil Nadu has been pressing for increasing the storage level in the dam to 142 feet from 136 feet while Kerala wants the reservoir to be decomissioned. It has sought lowering the water level to 120 feet as an immediate measure in the wake of recent developments.
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