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The State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) has revoked the Environmental Clearance (EC) granted to Brigade Enterprises Ltd. for its projected residential task successful the Pallikaranai marshland Ramsar tract aft uncovering that the institution had commenced construction without obtaining mandatory support from the Tamil Nadu State Wetland Authority.
The determination was taken during the 1,005th gathering of the SEIAA held connected May 8, 2026, pursuing a connection from the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Member Secretary of the Tamil Nadu State Wetland Authority. The Authority brought to SEIAA’s announcement that Brigade Enterprises had failed to comply with a project-specific information attached to the biology clearance granted connected January 20, 2025.
The information required the task proponent to get owed support from the Wetland Authority earlier commencing immoderate work, wherever applicable. However, the Wetland Authority informed SEIAA that operation activities had already begun and that nary specified support had been obtained anterior to the commencement of the project.
SEIAA noted that this amounted to a usurpation of the conditions of the biology clearance.
After considering the Wetland Authority’s findings, SEIAA decided to rescind the biology clearance issued to the project. The project, known arsenic Brigade Morgan Heights, proposes astir 1,250 residential units connected astir 14.7 acres successful Perumbakkam, wrong the Pallikaranai marshland’s Ramsar boundary.
Activists invited move
Welcoming the move, Arappor Iyakkam said the cancellation was an important measurement towards protecting the Pallikaranai marsh. The organisation said it had raised complaints regarding the task approvals with assorted authorities successful October 2025 and maintained that operation had begun without clearance from the Tamil Nadu State Wetland Authority. It urged the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) to besides revoke the project’s readying permission.
Poovulagin Nanbargal, an biology organisation, welcomed the determination and urged the Environment Department not to entertain immoderate caller exertion for biology clearance from Brigade for the project. It besides called connected the Tamil Nadu authorities to expedite the recognition and notification of wetlands crossed the State successful accordance with the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2017.
