Navi Mumbai: In a great assistance for environmental lovers to save 289 hectares of Panje Wetland and Biodiversity, the slow Material Committee appointed by the Bombay High Court has refused to accept CidCo’s opinion that the site Panje in Taluka Taluka is not wetland.
During the latest meeting held by the wetland panel designated by HC, one of its members, D Stalin, standing strongly in the holder which Panje was wetlands because intertidal waters were still seen here and continued to attract hundreds of wetland birds, such as Flamingos.
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“CidCo wants the closure of complaints about landfills and other violations on the Panje site on the grounds that it is not wetland.
However, I reasoned that intertidal waters were still visible in Panje, and so was the bird of wetlands, after that the panel refused to close the case file,” said Stalin.
Meanwhile, the committee referred to a problem of violations and choking on inter-tidal water flow in NRI and TS Chanakya wetlands in Nerul to the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA).
“Experts, such as the Head of Forest Conservator (CCF) and McZma, also stated that Panje was under CRZ 1, and that it needed to be preserved.
These marine experts are not crazy to agree with the status of the wetlands,” Stalin said.
Therefore, the wet land committee decided not to close a series of complaints that were delayed over violations at Panje.
Welcoming “Positive Development,” Director of the Natconnect B Foundation B N Kumar, who has repeatedly raised concerns about the destruction with the government and Panjove and the wetland committee, said Panje had all the characteristics of wetlands as defined by the Ramsar Convention.
Nandakumar Pawar, Head of Shri Ekvira Aai Prathanhtan, who received the threat of death by local thugs because it raised the issue of reopening tidal water inlet with NGT, said the community of natural history of Bombay (BNHS) and some experts were interested in preserving Panje, and it was only “CidCo and Other personal interests that bend to destroy it to make concrete forests “.
McZma said in his written statement to Bombay HC that Panje was the Crz 1 area, while the Minister of Environment also stopped fresh construction there.
Information obtained based on the Right Law on information shows that the construction of the wall gate and water gate in Panje and compound walls founded by the Special Economic Zone of Navi Mumbai (NMSEZ) do not have a crz free distance, said Pawar and Kumar.
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