HC issues notice to Centre and TN on Heritage Commission

The Madras High Court today issued notices to the Centre and state government over the issue of non-setting up of the Heritage Commission, a statutory authority to advise the government on issues pertaining to heritage.
The First Bench, comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M.M. Sundresh, which took suo motu note of a news article published in a leading English daily over the two-year long delay in setting up the Heritage Commission by the state after it passed a legislation to this effect, directed that replies be filed on the matter in three days.
Besides the Centre, the court issued notices to the Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Government's Tourism, Culture and Religious Endowment Department and posted the matter for further hearing on February 10.

The Tamil Nadu legislature passed a bill to set up a 17-member Heritage Commission to guide it on heritage issues and the Governor gave his assent to the bill immediately.
Since then, the government was yet to establish the Heritage Commission.
The daily had highlighted the delay.