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Resolution on Katchatheevu 2025
April 5 , 2025
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- Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution, urging the Union government to take steps to retrieve the Katchatheevu island.
- The resolution has urged the Union government to immediately review the Indo-Sri Lankan agreement 1974 and take steps to retrieve Katchatheevu island.
- On August 21, 1974, the TN Legislative Assembly has adopted a resolution expressing regret over the Centre’s decision regarding Katchatheevu and urged the government to reconsider the agreement with Sri Lanka
- During the tenure of the former CM Jayalalithaa, resolutions were passed in the Assembly on October 3, 1991, and May 3, 2013, urging the Union government to reclaim Katchatheevu.
- When O. Panneerselvam was CM, a resolution was passed on December 5, 2014.
- Katchatheevu is a 285-acre uninhabited island in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka.
- It is under the control of Ramnad zamindari under Nayak dynasty of Madurai in the 17th century.
- Under the Indo-Sri Lankan Maritime Agreement 1974, the island was transferred to Sri Lanka.
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