(1) The State Government shall, with effect from such date as it may, by notification, appoint, constitute an Authority to be called the East Kolkata Wetlands Management Authority.
(2) The Authority shall consist of the following Members:—
(i) Chief Secretary to the Government of West Bengal, Chairperson;
(ii) Secretary, Department of Environment, Member- Government of West Bengal, Secretary;
(iii) Secretary, Department of Urban Development, Member;
Government of West Bengal,
(iv) Secretary, Department of Irrigation and Member;
Waterways, Government of West Bengal,
(v) Secretary, Department of Fisheries, Member;
Government of West Bengal,
(vi) Secretary, Department of Forest, Member;
Government of West Bengal,
(vii) Secretary, Department of Municipal Affairs, Member;
Government of West Bengal,
(viii) Secretary, Department of Land and Land Reforms, Member;
Government of West Bengal,
(ix) Secretary, Department of Panchayat and Rural Member;
Development, Government of West Bengal,
(x) Chairman, West Bengal Pollution Control Board, Member;
(xi) Member-Secretary, West Bengal Pollution Member;
Control Board,
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Functions and powers of Authority:
(Section 4.)
(xii) Chief Executive Officer, Kolkata Metropolitan Member;
Development Authority,
(xiii) Commissioner, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Member;
(xiv) District Magistrate, 24-Parganas (South), Member;
(xv) District Magistrate, 24-Parganas (North), Member;
(xvi) three persons to be nominated by the State Members;
Government of whom one each shall be from amongst the representatives of—
(a) the non-Government organisations having expertise in the field of wetland conservation;
(b) the non-Government organisations having expertise in the field of wetland management; and
(c) the fishermen's co-operative societies formed for the purpose under the West Bengal Inland Fisheries Act, 1984,
(xvii) one representative of the Institute of Environmental Member.
Studies and Wetland Management, Kolkata, to be nominated by the State Government.
(3) The Authority shall be a body corporate with the name specified in sub-section
(1) having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to contract and may, by the aforesaid name, sue or be sued.