Chennai, Jan 23 (BPNS)

The Tamil Nadu police have ensured stringent monitoring of all the check posts in borders manning Kerala state. With the Sunday lockdown in place in Kerala and Tamil Nadu with the movement of essential vehicles only allowed, Tamil Nadu side has enforced strong monitoring in all the check posts manning Kerala.

Deputy Superintendent (DySp ) level officers are leading the police team that is monitoring the check posts in different parts of the state bordering Kerala. At Wayalar check post bordering Palakkad district of Kerala, police have blocked the entry to Tamil Nadu and only a side road through which a single vehicle can travel is opened. To enter Tamil Nadu from Kerala, either RTPCR negative certificate or two vaccination certificates is required on regular days but on the lockdown day, only people whose travel is indispensable are allowed into Tamil Nadu from Kerala. Medical emergencies and airport travel are the two areas that are given relaxation by the Tamil Nadu side.

At Wandiperiyar in the Tamil Nadu side also police are monitoring stringently people reaching the state. Even those who reach the state by walk are not allowed entry and all the pocket roads and forest path is also cordoned off by the Tamil Nadu police. The state health minister while speaking to media persons on Sunday has said that the number of fresh and active cases in Tamil Nadu is much lower than that in Karnataka, Kerala, and Maharashtra. This is the reason why Tamil Nadu police are given stringent instructions to prevent the entry of people, cattle, and vehicles from Kerala into the state.

A strong contingent of Tamil Nadu police led by three DySp’s are monitoring the Kalliyakkavilai check post bordering Thiruvananthapuram. Police are not allowing vehicles going to the Tamil Nadu side unless there are genuine reasons like death in family or something that much important.

C. Raveendran, a businessman from Thiruvananthapuram who has relatives in Nagercoil and wants to visit there due to a function at his relative’s place has to return from Kalliyakkavilai. While speaking to BPNS he said, “ Tamil Nadu police did not allow us to travel crossing the check post and hence have to cancel the trip.”