PM: Environment Regulation Soon
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 7,
July 2011
A National Environment Appraisal and Monitoring Authority (NEAMA) would be set up staffed by professionals, whose decisions would be subject to scrutiny, the Prime Minister declared while speaking at a seminar on Global Environment and Disaster Management: Law and Society.
The move to establish this authority appears to have come in the wake of stalling of several industrial and mining projects after the environment ministry, till recently led by Jairam Ramesh, had refused to clear the project.
Dr Singh also hailed the new “comprehensive law" which established a specialised tribunal for settlement of a “broad spectrum of environmental cases of civil nature". Read the full report here.
Source: by Rashme Sehgal, Correspondent, Deccan Chronicle, New Delhi.
