{"id":69371,"date":"2026-02-20T12:08:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=69371"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:43:58","slug":"public-trust-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/public-trust-doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Trust Doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Public Trust Doctrine Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court recently held that the doctrine of public trust is not confined only to natural waterbodies such as rivers, lakes, and wetlands but also extends to man-made or artificially created waterbodies that serve ecological or environmental purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Public Trust Doctrine<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>legal principle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> establishing that <\/span><b>certain natural and cultural resources are preserved for public use.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rooted in Roman law and developed through English common law, this doctrine <\/span><b>encompasses various public assets such as tidal waters, lakes, rivers, wetlands, and ecosystems.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It rests on the principle that <\/span><b>certain resources have such great importance to the people as a whole<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that it would be wholly <\/span><b>unjustified to make them a subject of private ownership.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>public is considered the owner<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the resources, and the <\/span><b>government protects and maintains these resources for the public&#8217;s use.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The doctrine enjoins upon the government to safeguard the resources for the enjoyment of the final public instead of to allow their use for personal possession or industrial functions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Three types of restrictions on governmental authority <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are often thought to be imposed by the public trust:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>property <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">subject to the trust must not only be used for a public purpose, but it <\/span><b>must be held available for use by the general public;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the property <\/span><b>may not be sold,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> even for a fair cash equivalent;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\">the property must be <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">maintained for particular types of uses.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lawbeat.in\/supreme-court-judgments\/public-trust-doctrine-applies-to-artificially-created-waterbodies-too-supreme-court-1534472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LAWB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Trust Doctrine is a legal principle asserting that the government acts as the custodian of certain natural resources for the benefit of the public. 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