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- The Supreme Court has directed all states and union territories to physically verify and demarcate every wetland listed in the ISRO Space Applications Centre's 2021 Atlas within two months.
- The court warned that officials, including environment secretaries and state wetland authority vice-chairmen, will be summoned to explain non-compliance if the exercise remains a paperwork formality.
- The order comes in a case the court has monitored since 2018, after petitioners showed that several states claimed compliance without actual on-site inspections of the more than 231,000 mapped wetlands.
What to watch next
- Whether states and UTs complete physical ground-truthing and demarcation and file compliance reports within the two-month deadline
- Whether defaulting officials are summoned to appear personally before the court
- Progress on official notification of wetlands and publication of verification details on state websites
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Named India · Ministry of Environment and Forest · State Wetland Authorities · Anand Arya · Anitha Shenoy · Aravind Kumar · ISRO · Jayant Bhushan · MK Balakrishnan · Shibani Ghosh · Space Applications Centre · Supreme Court · Union government
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