India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia
Published on India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia (http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in)

Home > News > PROTECTING WETLANDS > PROTECTING WETLANDS

 PROTECTING WETLANDS [1]

A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court for the protection of wetlands. M K Balakrishnan, an advocate, has filed the petition, which also includes a provision for paddy fields to be declared as productive wetlands. The PIL is based on a ruling given by the Calcutta high court in response to a petition filed by People United for Better Living in Calcutta (PUBLIC), a non-governmental organisation. "The judgement only covered the state of West Bengal but we need a similar judgement for the whole country,' says Balakrishanan. In the PUBLIC case, the apex court had restrained the reclamation of wetlands for development activities.

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
Down to Earth [2]
Tags:
Wetlands [3], Public Interest Litigation (PIL) [4], Supreme Court [5], Calcutta (D) [6]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

Technology Partners: MimirTech


India Environment Portal by Centre for Science and Environment is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India License.


Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/protecting-wetlands-1

Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/protecting-wetlands-1
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wetlands
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/public-interest-litigation-pil
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/supreme-court
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/calcutta-d