"The Expert Committee has completed its hearing and evidence taking... They will submit the report in two to three days time, he said.
Chandy was speaking at the 'Jana Samparka Paripadi' (Mass contact programme) here.
The Committee, headed by Oommen V Oommen, Chairman of State Biodiversity Board, was formed to formulate the state's stand on panel report's recommendations.
The committee was tasked with evolving a consensus among people and creating awareness at grass root level on the recommendations in the light of protests and agitation by settled farmers in high range areas of the state.
He said the state had clearly stated that demarcation of whole villages as Ecologically Sensitive Area was not acceptable to it.
There should be clear cut demarcation between populated area and forest and plantations while defining Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESA), he said.