Commentators say thousands of factories get built in India every year and the government has clearly encouraged industrial projects - evidence the ruling left-of-centre Congress party is not anti-development.
What India is trying to do in the actions of its fiesty Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is to create a model for sustainable economic development that is in keeping with the country's image of an emerging responsible global power. Read the full report here.
Source: by Krittivas Mukherjee, Reuters, Africa.