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Anti-corruption NGO Arappor Iyakkam has alleged that various government departments in Tamil Nadu colluded to grant illegal permissions for a massive real estate project inside the ecologically sensitive Pallikaranai marshland Ramsar site. In a complaint to Chief Minister MK Stalin, the Director of the Department of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, and others on October 23, Arappor alleged that the real estate and property development company Brigade Enterprises was granted permissions in violation of rules.

The Pallikaranai marshland was declared a Ramsar site in April 2022. A Ramsar site is declared under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, an intergovernmental treaty for the conservation and wise use of wetlands. The Pallikaranai st

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