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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Western Ghats expert panel report under review-Nitin Sethi

Western Ghats expert panel report under review-Nitin Sethi

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published Published on Aug 21, 2012   modified Modified on Aug 21, 2012
-The Times of India

The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has set up a committee under the chairmanship of Planning Commission member K Kasturirangan to review the controversial Western Ghats ecology experts panel report, which had recommended restricting industrial development in about 75% of the hilly terrain spread across six states. The Western Ghats panel report was roundly criticized by the state governments and other infrastructure-related Central ministries.

The Kasturirangan committee will submit a report within two months to MoEF on how to implement the findings in a 'holistic' and 'effective' manner.

The committee has been tasked with incorporating the views of the state governments as well as other ministries before MoEF takes its decision.

The environment ministry in its notification has said the panel will review the "constitutional implications of Centre-state relations with respect to conservation and sustainable development of the Western Ghats region and the implications of the UNESCO heritage site recognition of some parts of the ghats".

The states had raised concerns about the federal nature of an over-arching environmental authority to regulate development in the ghats as recommended by the ecology experts. The states had also raised a din over the Union government enlisting sites in the Western Ghats on the UNESCO World Heritage roster. While some had talked of the impact on industries, others had raised concerns about the consequences of this new tag on rights of tribals and other groups in the Western Ghats' complex.

The panel includes C R Babu, professor emeritus in the University of Delhi; Professor Kanchan Chopra, retired director of the Institute of Economic Growth; Sunita Narain, director general of Centre for Science and Environment; J M Mauskar, retired officer of the environment ministry; Darshan Shankar, chairman of the Institute of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine' P S Roy, director of Indian Institute of Remote Sensing; and Jagdish Kishwan, a senior forest officer in MoEF. Ajay Tyagi, joint secretary in the ministry is the panel's member-secretary.


The Times of India, 21 August, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/developmental-issues/Western-Ghats-expert-panel-report-under-review/articleshow/15578818.cms


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