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14. This Court paid it's best attention and anxious consideration to the submissions made by the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner, learned Advocate General and also scanned and perused the entire materials placed before it.

15. This Court can take judicial notice of the fact that the State of Tamil Nadu is always a water starved State and that is why our forefathers had a vision and though fit to construct/create very many artificial lakes, temple tanks to augment the surcharge of ground water level, but unfortunately due to urbanisation and ineffective implementation and enforcement of the relevant Laws, most of such water resources had become plots, especially unapproved plots, encroachment on public lands and very many unauthorized constructions are also allowed to take place under the WATCHFUL eyes of the concerned officials. A Government organization of the State of Tamil Nadu, namely, Tamil Nadu Housing Board, is also guilty of converting water body as house sites and developing housing colonies, after re-classification and that apart, land sharks continue to convert water body into housing plots by dumping debris and other materials and in very many cases, concerned authorities had turned a blind eye to the illegal acts which are taking place. As a consequence, this Court is flooded with very many litigations in the form of Public Interest and other litigations complaining about encroachments, conversion of water bodies into housing plots and unauthorized constructions and precious time of this Court is being spent for disposal of those kind of cases and so far, no effective mechanism is put in place.