The East Kolkata Wetlands are precious natural assets of the city of Kolkata, as they extend numerous ecosystem services to it. Along with carbon sequestration, flood control, and providing a unique climate conducive to pisciculture and vegetable farming, the wetlands also serve as Kolkata's natural wastewater treatment mechanism, which treats around 78% of the city's wastewater, saving the municipality around Rs. 4,700 million on an annual basis (Dey and Banerjee, 2015a). Due to their incomparable significance, multilevel institutions have recognised the wetlands as protected sites through conventions and state-level legislation. However, despite the presence of such statutes, degradation and depletion of the wetlands have continued. This research piece analyses the potency of the wetland's protection institutions. The first section highlights the pertinent defects in the state government legislation with regard to the stakeholder engagement in the process of wetlands conservation policymaking, followed by the section that emphasises evidence-backed policy suggestions as course-corrective measures