Even as it deliberates on the 55 major recommendations of the TSR Subramanian chaired high-level committee to amend five Central Environmental Acts, the environment ministry now will hear out its own officials across the country. Over the course of this month, the ministry will hold a dialogue with 600 of its own officers, young and old, at Bengaluru, Bhopal and Guwahati before their plan to present the amendments to Acts in the budget session of parliament. "We are calling them 'Chintan Shivir's', where we take suggestions from officers on policy processes and all five Central Acts. We also want to reach out to people through our officers," said Prakash Javadekar, union minister of environment, forests and climate change (MoEF&CC) while speaking to reporters on Friday.
Even as it deliberates on the 55 major recommendations of the TSR Subramanian chaired high-level committee to amend five Central Environmental Acts, the environment ministry now will hear out its own officials across the country. Over the course of this month, the ministry will hold a dialogue with 600 of its own officers, young and old, at Bengaluru, Bhopal and Guwahati before their plan to present the amendments to Acts in the budget session of parliament. "We are calling them 'Chintan Shivir's', where we take suggestions from officers on policy processes and all five Central Acts. We also want to reach out to people through our officers," said Prakash Javadekar, union minister of environment, forests and climate change (MoEF&CC) while speaking to reporters on Friday.
The TSR Subramanian committee report was appointed to review Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981. Among its major recommendations, the committee recommended self-certification by industries and creation of National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) at the Centre and the State Environment Management Authority (SEMA) at the state level as full time processing/clearing/monitoring agencies.
When asked about the perception that the environment ministry is shunning dialogue with people on controversial policy decisions and in fact diluting the rights of people, Javadekar was evasive and dismissive. "There is no dilution..we (BJP) were in fact responsible for bringing in tribal rights to the fore through our work in Maharashtra," he retorted.
While commenting on India's plans and concerns regarding the climate change conference in Paris later this December, Javadekar said that India will make a push for critical green technologies to be made open source.
"Technologies that are critical for clean air and clean water need to be made open source. Countries need to arrive at a consensus on the intellectual property right issue before technologies are made open source," Javadekar said. He added, "As a way to tackle the intellectual property issue, companies can be compensated using the green climate fund."
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