Residents want CMDA to lift halt on building permissions around Pallikaranai marsh

Residents’ groups in the Sholinganallur Assembly constituency urged the State government to withdraw the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA)’s circular that halted all approvals or planning or building permits within one kilometre of the Pallikaranai marshland.

The appeal comes after an order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Southern Zone, directing authorities not to grant approvals or permissions for constructions within the Ramsar site and its one-kilometre influence zone, after it takes suo motu cognisance of a report on road-laying inside the Perumbakkam marshland.

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Following the Tribunal’s direction, the CMDA issued a circular, dated October 3, stating that no further approvals or permissions are to be granted within the Ramsar site boundary and its influence area.

‘Caused uncertainty’