New Delhi: Exploring the Ways to REGRA Law Green Umbrella newly on all existing environmental laws, the government has revisited recommendations from a seven-year high level committee who has suggested air law and water clubbing with the 1986 Environmental Protection Act When treating laws in the forest and wildlife separately.
Although the process of streamlining green law through certain amendments has been going on at the Ministry of Environment over the past few years, the recent steps triggered by the central plan to treat this aspect on the priority at that time in the action of 60 points after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Secretary and Minister of last month.
“We have worked to change the Indian Forest Law (IFA) and Forest Conservation Act (FCA).
Consultation papers on FCA Amendments, 1980 have been released, looking for input from stakeholders.
As far as the actions of a single environment, the recommendation of the Highlevel Committee 2014 was being studied, “said an official.
The committee, chaired by the former Cabinet Secretary T Subramanian, has been formed based on Modi’s first term.
It has submitted its recommendations to the Ministry in November 2014.
“It is practically impossible to facilitate all environmental laws in one action / law-law.
It never happens anywhere in the world and is not possible to compile such laws: implementation It is also impossible.
What is the provisions with respect to air pollution, water pollution, wild animal hunting, AMDAL, and access and sharing traditional knowledge join together in one law, “said Ritwick Dutta of Legal Initiative for Forests and the Environment (Life).
Dutta, an environmental lawyer, said, “It is important to appreciate that the environment is a complex subject and remembering environmental challenges, there is a need for more specific laws to deal with environmental problems.
To destroy all laws in the law is by word- Simple word, a plan designed to fail at the beginning itself.
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