MUMBAI: Batting for a "paperless" environment while hearing a public interest litigation regarding Navi Mumbai's Panje-Dongri wetlands, the Bombay high court has said that it is high-time the state and its agencies used the e-filing option.
"It is incongruous that in an environmental PIL that seeks to protect wetlands, and filed by a social action group that seeks to protect forests, more and more paper is being used like this,'' said Justices Gautam Patel and Gauri Godse in the August 10 order. The PIL was filed by NGO Vanashakti to declare the wetlands as a bird sanctuary under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, on account of a scientifically conclusive fact that it was a unique bird habitat supporting birds of over a hundred migratory species and provides important ecosystem services
