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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Modi Government's Environment Policy Endorses Everything That Bodes Well for Business -Garima Maheshwari

Modi Government's Environment Policy Endorses Everything That Bodes Well for Business -Garima Maheshwari

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published Published on Jun 22, 2017   modified Modified on Jun 22, 2017
-TheWire.in

The government knows what it wants to achieve where the environment is concerned, even if it is at the cost of the protection of ecosystems, and people’s livelihood and well being.

The last three years under the Modi government have seen the transformation of the environment from being a field of relative stability and inactivity, to functioning as an active instrument of capital accumulation. The sharp polarisation between extremely positive initiatives (like India’s assertive global position on climate change, ambitious forays into renewables and bills institutionalising water for life) and negative anti-people actions (especially decisions regulating natural ecosystems like coasts, forests and wetlands, and the eroding of people’s rights), is based on the government rationale to endorse everything that bodes well for business, new technology and international acclaim, even if this is achieved at the expense of the protection of ecosystems, conservation, people’s livelihood and well being.

Business development in the environment

The erosion of people’s rights caused by the government’s ‘development’ (or business development) initiatives, has been the most recurrent bone of contention over the last three years. Arguably, this mode of regulatory-business development is based on a command-and-control model whereby claims made by local community to the environmental commons are considerably eroded. Resources like land, air and water have come to be defined less by local ownership of ‘environment management practices’ and more by post-facto participatory public consultations.

The government is routing such practices through the system of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). The EIA is a critical constituent of responsible environmental governance and is a determining factor of how the balance between people, environment and industry will ultimately pan out. For instance, what happens when builders get automatic environmental clearance for online proposals pending more than a month, where there are no prior site checks? This is exactly what the Model Building Bye Laws do, which is just one among the many such prospective regulations.

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Livemint.com, 22 June, 2017, https://thewire.in/149817/modi-government-environment-policy/


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