ORDER

This batch of writ petitions is filed challenging the Government Order in

GO(Ms)No.142 Public Works (R2) Department dated 23.07.2014 that this government order violates the fundamental rights of the petitioners.

2. This impugned government order was issued in the year 2014 for regulation of management of ground water and issuance of No Objection Certificate / License for extraction of ground water in the state of Tamil Nadu. This impugned government order was issued in continuance of GO.Ms.No.52 Public Works (R2) Department, dated 02.03.2012 categorizing of blocks as Over

Exploited, Critical, Semi - Critical and Safe in the sate.

3. The surface water resources data are estimated periodically by the State government in coordination with the Central Ground Water Board, Government of India, SERC Chennai, based on the methodology evolved by Ground Water Estimation Committee 1997. As on March 2009, the Assessment of State Ground Water Resources was taken up jointly with Central Ground Water Board. The Ground Water Assessment 2009 was placed before the "State Level Committee for Re-estimation of Ground Water Resources Assessment" and approved by the said Committee consisting of 18 membe