led a committee of scientists in a 6 year long research to identify and quantify the different kinds of ecological and structural damage inflicted upon the western ghats due to mans activities as well as to suggest ways to reduce or reverse such damage.
The voluminous report he submitted has been extensively peer reviewed and critically acclaimed by environment scientists worldwide. The Union MOEF accepted his report, tabled it in Parliament and the Union cabinet recommended its implementation in toto in each of the western ghat states.
However, in a stunning sequence of developments, the BJP, the Congress, the Shiv Sena, the JD (S), the DMK, the AIADMK and a range of smaller parties of these states joined in a remarkable show of solidarity in vehemently opposing the implementation of the reports recommendations !!!
Most spectacular has been the unanimity between the BJP and the Congress in ensuring that the iron ore mafia and the rock quarry mafia and the forest land encroachment mafia are not prevented in any way from carrying on their activities full scale !
The by now legendary V S Achuthanandan, erstwhile marxist chief minister of Kerala, sought to implement the Gadgil recommendations in toto by beginning a determined series of destruction of unauthorised structures in the western ghat districts of Idukki and Pathanamthitta and also by enacting a *Wetland protection Act* with very stringent provisions that ensured that not a single square inch of paddy field or pond or stream could be filled up for construction activities. V S was so determined to reverse all the damage wrought on the hills in Kerala that he even positioned himself on the Munnar mountain, personally supervising the demolition of a large number of unauthorised structures that had been put up during Congress rule in the state !
And V S was so impartial and focussed in his mission that he had no hesitation in uprooting and destroying acres of tea plantation on land encroached by the - hold your breath - the TATA group !!
Alas, all his good work was undone by a determined opposition (Congress party) and the stuxpid middle class commoners who went about ridiculing his acts as destructive !!
And, once the Congress led UDF won back power in 2011 (by the thinnest of margins), the CM Oommen Chandy promptly diluted the wetland protection act !!
Re: Dr Madhav Gadgil
by Yogesh Murgude on Aug 21, 2018 10:15 AM
Very detailed comment. This is how Congress worked from the beginning. It is the wrong party at the helm of the nation for long years. It did more bad than good to the nation. It is case everywhere when Congress in power be it at state or center.
Re: Re: Dr Madhav Gadgil
by piri on Aug 21, 2018 12:16 PM
The Congress did more harm than good to the nation, true. Among the several bad things it did, perhaps the most harmful has been its refusal to implement the Constitutional provision to bring comprehensive land reforms all over India to reduce poverty and landlessness.
But the BJP has been much worse !
If the Congress is bad in several things, the BJP is much worse, especially in corruption !
The BJPs main financiers in Karnataka, the Reddy brothers, are the biggest and most blatant violators of the recommendations in the Gadgil committee report !
ADMINISTRATIVE DISCIPLINED BRAINS ARE REQUIRED FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE . NOT THE HIGHLY CORRUPTED AND ALCOHOLIC BRAINS OF FOOLITICIANS. NEVER EVER VOTE FOR FOOLITICIANS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE PEACEFULLY .NEVER BUILD HOUSES WHERE RIVERS USED TO FLOW AND ON HILL SIDES. NEVER MEDDLE WITH THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE GHATS AND HILLS OF KERALA. RESPECT NATURE OR ELSE....
Re: WILL THE NEX GEN LEARN THE LESSON ??
by Vishvaksenah on Aug 21, 2018 07:10 AM
Had the Madhav Gadgil report been implemented, this calamity could have been avoided.
Re: WILL THE NEX GEN LEARN THE LESSON ??
by Yogesh Murgude on Aug 21, 2018 10:20 AM
All the hill areas of KErala, Karnataka and North east are damaged by planting Tea and Coffee for commercial purpose. The ecosystem of those areas are gone for thew toss. So whenever there is little more from the nature, we feel the heat. It is the creation of the self. If we do not control our deeds, then more to come. Deforestation is the major cause of disasters everywhere in the world.
