Notice on declaring 45 villages as PCPIR

The Madras High Court has issued notice to both the state and Centre on a plea seeking to quash the Government Order (GO) notifying about 23,000 hectares spread across 45 villages in Cuddalore and Nagapattinam districts under Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Region (PCPIR) as ‘local planning area.’ 

A division bench comprising Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice M Sundar, before whom the PIL moved by G Sundarrajan, Managing Trustee Poovulagin Nanbargal, came up on Friday, issued notice returnable by four weeks. The petitioner submitted that, the state government issued a GO delineating 45 villages in Cuddalore and Nagapattinam districts.

But in the process, the state had totally ignored section 10 (1) (b) of the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act, 1971 Act.