Justices N. Sathish Kumar and D. Bharatha Chakravarthy of the Madras High Court on Thursday said they will do another inspection of the forest areas in the State in December this year to take stock of the progress made by the forest department in clearing the exotic and invasive species and replacing them with native species.
Justice Kumar and other judges of the High Court had carried out such inspections early this year and issued a slew of directions to the officials with respect to banning plastics in the hill stations, creating a safe passage for the elephants while crossing railway tracks, and preventing the discarding of liquor glass bottles in the forest areas.
The Court also continued to monitor the progress while dealing with a host of writ petitions pending before it. When some of the cases were listed for hearing on Thursday, the judges expressed their displeasure over the delay on the part of the government in granting permission to Tamil Nadu Newsprints and Papers Limited to remove senna spectabilis.
