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Tamil Nadu is the lone State successful the state to boast of arsenic galore arsenic 20 wetlands designated arsenic ‘Ramsar sites’ of planetary value successful accordance with an intergovernmental biology pact signed astatine Ramsar successful Iran successful 1971, the State Wetland Authority told the Madras High Court connected Wednesday (November 12, 2025).
Appearing earlier the archetypal Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan, elder counsel P. Wilson, representing the Tamil Nadu State Wetland Authority (TNSWA), said, the State authorities was precise keen connected protecting the wetlands and not let them to vanish.
When the Chief Justice asked wherefore past a nationalist involvement litigation petition had been filed successful the tribunal alleging operation of precocious emergence residential towers wrong the Ramsar tract astir Pallikaranai marshland successful Chennai, the elder counsel said, the petitioner’s averments stay to beryllium conscionable allegations arsenic connected date.
He said, the ‘ground truthing’ workout to hole the boundaries of the Ramsar tract astatine Pallikaranai was yet to beryllium concluded afloat and that the Supreme Court, successful a lawsuit related to extortion of wetlands crossed the country, had granted clip till December 2 for the TNSWA to taxable its ‘ground truthing’ report.
“The information volition travel retired erstwhile the wetland boundaries are identified and erstwhile we spot it earlier Your Lordships. Once we are capable to hole the boundaries and spot the study earlier the State authorities arsenic good arsenic this court, Your Lordships volition travel to cognize precisely wherever this spot lies,” helium said.
Mr. Wilson urged the Division Bench to instrumentality up the contiguous PIL petition for proceeding aft the Supreme Court hears the related substance adjacent connected December 2. Accepting his submission, the judges directed the High Court Registry to database the lawsuit earlier them connected December 3.
They besides extended, till the adjacent day of hearing, an interim bid that they had passed connected October 31, 2025 successful the PIL petition restraining backstage existent property developer Brigade Enterprises Limited from constructing the precocious emergence towers astatine its Pallikaranai project.
J. Brezhnev, Chennai suburban territory ineligible helping caput of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, had filed the PIL petition alleging that the precocious emergence towers had been projected close wrong the 1,247.54 hectare Ramsar tract successful Pallikaranai.
Accusing the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority of having granted readying support for the existent property task connected January 23, 2025 without taking into relationship the delicate quality of the land, the litigant had urged the tribunal to quash the permission.
