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An ecologically illiterate Budget -Ashish Kothari

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published Published on Feb 9, 2021   modified Modified on Feb 10, 2021

-The Hindu

On several significant items relating to the environment, allocations have remained stagnant or fallen

In 1991, when the then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh ushered in economic reforms that catapulted India into the global economy, I had asked him how he intended to balance rapid economic growth with environmental protection. He said that the experience of the West is that once there is enough money in the economy through growth, it can be put for ecological purposes.

A dismal gap

Leaving aside the fallacy of believing that all ecological damage can be compensated (a rainforest drowned under a dam can’t be recreated, however much money you pour into it), the truth is that governments have not put in the substantial new financial resources raised through rapid growth into environmental protection. Budgetary allocations for the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) have consistently fallen as a percentage of total allocations. Second, even when there are increased allocations, such as for cleaning up the Ganga, their usage is ridden with such design flaws, inefficiencies and corruption that the environment is no better off than before. Steadily increasing levels of pollution, biodiversity loss, decline in forest health and destruction of wetlands is testimony to the dismal gap between governmental rhetoric and the environment, regardless of the party in power.

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The Hindu, 9 February, 2021, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/an-ecologically-illiterate-budget/article33785392.ece?homepage=true&fbclid=IwAR3t8MUiTBMlayu37f-H0dHm_WGR6hDf-GkaoyY4rcYLeoc08bndqjKdVhU


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