Members

We acknowledge the positive role played by 16th SC-B (Standing Committee on Bioresources and Environment) of NNRMS (National Natural Resources Management System) meeting in formulating this project. We are extremely thankful to the members of the“Steering Committee” of the project, under the chairmanship of Dr E J James, Director – Water Institute, Karunya University, for their periodical review, critical comments and appreciation of the efforts by the project team. We are thankful to SC-B under the chairmanship of Secretary, MoEF, for periodic review of the progress of the project and guidance towards timely completion of the work. We acknowledge the valuable contributions made by Dr J K Garg, the then scientist of SAC for his active role in formulation of this project, co-authoring the procedure manual document.

We are grateful to Dr G V Subramanyam, Adviser, MoEF, for his very active and positive role for implementation of the project. We are thankful to Dr Jag Ram, Director, MoEF and Dr Harendra Kharwal, MoEF for their support in budget and project management related issues. We are thankful to the “Technical Review” team of SAC for critical comments and suggestion to finalise the Atlas. We acknowledge the support received from Dr P S Roy, Dy Director, NRSC and Dr S Sudhakar, Head, LRD, NRSC in terms of valuable suggestions and providing the geo-referenced image of NRC-LU&LC project for use as master image in this project. We acknowledge the efforts put by Dr R D Shah, Mr Pragnesh Kumar Vaishnav and Ms Yatisha P Vaishnav, Geology Department, M G Science Institute, Ahmedabad in finalization of GIS database.

district level committee

The Government has constituted the District level Wetland Management Committee vide the G.O. (Ms).No. 132, Environment and Forests (FR5) Department, dated 13.11.2019 as follows

Sl.No Name of Post Designation in the Committee
1 District Collector Chairman
2 District Revenue Officer Member
3 Project Officer, District Rural Development Agency Member
4 Superintendent Engineer / Executive Engineer, Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board/ Chennai Metro Water supply and Sewage Board. Member
5 Superintendent / Executive Engineer, Water Resources Organization, Public Works Department of the District. Member
6 Assistant Director of Town Panchayat Member
7 Executive Engineer/ Assistant Executive Engineer Agriculture Engineering Department Member
8 District Environmental Engineer, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board Member
9 Regional Deputy Director, town and Country Planning Department Member
10 An expert on Wetland Management and conservation to be nominated by the Chairman. Member
11 District Forest Officer / Deputy Director / Wildlife Warden Member Secretary.

state level committee

The Government has constituted State Wetland Authority vide the G.O. (Ms).No. 148 Environment and Forests (FR5) Department, dated 26.11.2018 as follows

Sl No Name of Post Designation in the Committee
1 Hon’ble Minister (Forests) Chairperson
2 Chief Secretary to Government Vice – Chairperson
3 Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary/Secretary to Government, Environment and Forests Department Member ex-officio
4 Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary/Secretary to Government, Housing and Urban Development Department Member ex-officio
5 Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary/Secretary to Government, Rural Development and Panchayat RajDepartment Member ex-officio
6 Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary/Secretary to Government, Public Works Department Member ex-officio
7 Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary/Secretary to Government, Animal Husbandary, Dairying and Fisheries Department Member ex-officio
8 Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary/Secretary to Government, Tourism, Culture and Religious Endowments Department Member ex-officio
9 Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary/Secretary to Government, Revenue and Disaster Management Department Member ex-officio
10 Member Secretary, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board Member ex-officio
11 Professor and Director, Institute of Remote Sensing, Anna University Member ex-officio
12 Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Chief Wildlife Warden Member ex-officio
13 Member Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Bio-diversity Board Member ex-officio
14 Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests of the Regional Office of Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change Member ex-officio
15 Chief Conservator of Forests Member Secretary
16 Under clause (xvii) of the Rule 5(1) of the Wetland (Conservation and Management) Rules 2017 One expert each in the fields of Ecology, Hydrology, Fisheries, Landscape Planning and Socio-economics: (1). Dr. Balaji Narasimhan, Associate Professor, Environment and Water Resources Engineering Division, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai ( Expert in Hydrology) (2). Dr. Goplakrishnan, Director, Central Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi (Expert in Fisheries) Members