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Dismantling environmental laws, endangering India


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RSS
Human Beings are a Curse to Earth
by RSS on Feb 19, 2015 03:17 AM

Nature, Forests and Animals can live on happily without Human beings also.

As it is we have made so many species of Animals, Birds, Trees and Plants to the stage of Endangered or Extinct.

In fact Nature and Earth will be a much more better place without Cruel and Selfish Human beings like all of us are right now.

It is the Human species which cannot survive without Nature, Forests, Animals and rivers.

Any Political Party - BJP, Congress, AAP, SP, BSP, RJD, Shiv Sena - All of them must make sure that India's Forests are protected in the First priority before their greed for Power and Hunger, else we will be heading towards a catastrophe which cannot be reversed so easily.

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somasekhar Gupta
Dismantling environmental laws
by somasekhar Gupta on Feb 18, 2015 01:31 AM

It is quite surprice to here from minister Javadeker say don't go by what is being written on dismantling laws, "Go by what i am telling you. We are not dismantling laws, rather these laws are being changed for the better". I want reply from minister the better is for industrelist or for people of this country. One side government is giving advertizements for Swach Bharath another side dismantling environmental law/ protecting laws.Every citizen should come farward and show protest against this government.

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anantkumar
Environment policies versus industrial growth by Anant.
by anantkumar on Feb 17, 2015 10:02 AM

Industrial, economic development could not stop but care of the envelopment also have to be taken. Govt have to be frame the policies & its strict observation not by the govt itself but by the everyone responsible for the same . Not to allow the industries at the bank of the all rivers, all industrial affluent should have to be treated, planning for the proper sanitation of the cities have to be made, no waste water to be mixed with the rivers, if the land have acquired for industrial activities or other public interest then forest conservation activities have to be taken up and its audit have to be carried out by the govt or by the reputed organisation related with the field, taken care of the shortcomings and suggestions for the measures to be taken for the compliance of the same. Only relaxing the laws & rules for achieving the economic growth may become disastrous and it is one of the type of granting of the subsidy to the industrialist by refusing the same to the common & drown trodden class of the country.

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Anil Suri
Job creation vs environmental concerns?
by Anil Suri on Feb 17, 2015 08:31 AM  | Hide replies

Any government in India today has no alternative to creation of tens of millions of jobs over the next decade if India is to survive. That automatically means, there is no alternative to industrialization, which alone can create jobs on this unprecedented scale. Agriculture and service will not create as many jobs.

We will need land for this - we have to strike a balance between environmental concerns and industrialization. I believe this is possible, but we must first overcome knee-jerk reactions to achieve this.

The author of this article has merely sounded alarming, without actually talking about specifics. Not very helpful.

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piri
Re: Job creation vs environmental concerns?
by piri on Feb 17, 2015 08:46 AM
You have not gone into the specifics !

And that is your problem.

Ever read statistical data on the environment by various national, private and international agencies ?

In some detail ?

You will see that in many indices such as forest cover, ground water table, soil erosion, capacity of forests to support wild life, bio-diversity, presence of suspended particulate matter and other pollutants such SO2 and nitrous oxides in the air over cities, river water contamination, seepage of pollutants into drinking water reservoirs....and even coastal sea water pollution, India is the fastest growing country on earth now !

Read, and read from multiple sources to understand why it is the desire to serve huge and corrupt vested interests rather than that to create jobs that drives administrations to pillage and plunder mature in unsustainable ways !

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Maximum
Re: Re: Job creation vs environmental concerns?
by Maximum on Feb 17, 2015 08:55 AM
Do you know that currently at least a million die because they dont have food to eat
I think what ever you said is not incorrect
But you to choose.
Either you decide to uplift people and make them aware of enviornment or leave them in lurch where they create problmes of serious magnitude which any govt will not able to pacify

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Anil Suri
Re: Re: Job creation vs environmental concerns?
by Anil Suri on Feb 17, 2015 08:58 AM
Hold your fire - I am not denying there's an environmental catastrophe in the making if things go on this way!

But you seem to have answered your own question - industries have to be forced to comply with the rules.

Take many mineral plants, for example - and I am not just talking of Jindal or Sterlite; there are thousands of plants out there. They are happy to get illegal / stolen / 'preferentially allotted' raw material at dirt cheap prices, extract a small fraction to sell, using stolen / outdated (and hence, statutorily illegal) technology, and pump the hazardous waste out into the environment. Their profit model is based on the fact that their investment is ridiculously low, having got land, raw material etc at dirt rates and approvals through bribes. If they are forced to be environmentally compliant and use proper technology, there won't be a problem.

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pravin sarode
local municipalities cut trees
by pravin sarode on Feb 17, 2015 05:29 AM

In the name development KDMC cut century old tree without forest department permission in thakurli area so also rail protection force so NGO must come forward to protect our green earth shild as pandit neharu told if one tree is cut then grow ten trees as punishment for sin of that tree murder so new law is possible to make cutting trees for finishing tender work fast without forest dept permission like murder or attempt to murder IPC 304/302 for trees ?

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Tom Hanks
Rediff dragging environment into politics now??
by Tom Hanks on Feb 16, 2015 10:58 PM  | Hide replies

What kind of sham article is this??

Is this so-called author completely unaware of the Jayanti-tax followed in UPA, where in the name of environment protection, final project clearance as held up until some "settlement" done? Are you really so naive??

And here we have the government taking up cleaning Ganga as one of its most ambitious target, and this article chooses to completely ignore that!!

Is this what reporting has been reduced to?? Target and tainting the BJP government on such an important issue as environment, as in this process dirtying the whole discourse around it??

Disgusting.

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some one
Re: Rediff dragging environment into politics now??
by some one on Feb 17, 2015 03:40 AM

The author is not wrong in what they say, but like every one else throughout world, they carefully avoid mentioning the only feasible solution to environmental degradation, that human population must be drastically reduced quickly.

Within ten years the human population must be brought down from around seven billion at first to two billion or so, and then in next ten years further reduced to zero point five billion. The intermediate step is to enable administration to adjust smoothly to loss of active population, otherwise ideally it should be brought down to the final value instantly.

The natural environment of this planet cannot be saved if the human population exceeds half a billion. India is the most guilty and China is second most guilty country as far as spoiling the environment is concerned, because they have allowed their utterly deprived populations to grow to huge size. With near certainty of economic progress, these two countries are a big environmental time bomb the fused of which has already been lighted up. If they do not bring their population down within five years or so, then rest of the world either has to make it happen or watch the environment become a thing of the past.

No one wants to be the one to bell the cat, it seems, not even the so called environmental experts and activists. They only want to slow down the burning rate of the fuse, but do not wish to reduce the size of the bomb.


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pravin sarode
Re: Re: Rediff dragging environment into politics now??
by pravin sarode on Feb 17, 2015 06:35 AM
Look at waist water management in other countries they do use water propely not just spend funds say 8 crore for connecting MIDC phase 1 to phase 2 destroying every thing in way of digging digital India so mafia culture is main threat to trees cut as every development activity like road gutter pipe line cut trees but no rehabilitation or punishment for mass murder of trees like thakurli Railway bara banglow trees cut by jcb mafia to finish work to get more money fast at cost of environment so NGO must act now

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