Chennai: “Even if you build an expensive Taj on the water, we will knock it down,” said Madras High Court, censor the southern train to build a subway in the body of the water.
“In some ways, the unexpected allegations are that the National Highway Authority and National Highway Authority in India (NHAI) in particular, tend to show a little respect for waterbodies which block their new construction to facilitate road operations and trains,” the court said on Wednesday.
The first bench chairman of Judge Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy made observations for the public interest petition submitted by S T Arumugam on the construction of subways in Nagapattinam.
Advice for Petitioner V Karthikeyan accused that one or more waterbodies may have been completely destroyed in carrying out development.
Representing the train, advocate P T Ramkumar proposes that the construction is almost complete and the subway is ready for use.
Refusing to accept the same thing, the court directed both train and state authorities to submit their return information within three weeks.
“The state will show the nature of the land that has been built and also the feasibility of construction is lowered, if necessary, to revive water, if there is one,” said the court.
Although it is important that the highway must be built and deeper access by using trains is also accepted, the authorities must avoid any construction in any water and if it is truly unavoidable, pillars or the like can be built so that a larger part , From abandoned water is not disturbed and its nature does not change permanently, the bench is added.
There are other reports about police stations in several places built on what was once waterbodies.
The consistent rain of this court is that waterbodies must be preserved to enable humans and other life forms to survive and zero-tolerance policies must be adopted when it comes to disturbing or tarnishing the body of the water again, the court said.
It was added, many major waterbodies in all states and especially in urban areas had completely disappeared.
Even the reasons of destroying floods in 2015 were reported as a result of flowing channels inhibited by arbitrary construction in this city.