How Green Are Government Buildings? Environment Ministry Clueless
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 1,
January 2011
RTI activist Lokesh Batra wrote to Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh in June 2010 seeking information about guidelines for eco-friendly central government offices in the country.
The ministry wrote back to the retired naval officer in August saying the need for an eco-friendly environment in government offices had been felt by the ministry too. If Batra wanted, the ministry said, he could send in a draft of the proposed guidelines.
'Firstly, it was strange that rather than replying to my query, the ministry asked me to propose a draft on green building code for government offices. I forwarded them a document of a corporate house in the US involved with green issues that can be used for in this matter,' Batra told IANS. Read the full report here.
Source: Sify News, New Delhi.
