What was a grand strategy to create a parallel environmental structure for grievance and unclog the Supreme Court has fallen woefully short of its promise and potential.
On 14 June 1972, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's speech at the UN conference on environment in Stockholm called out the hypocrisy of rich nations that advanced due to industrialisation by exploiting natural resources and labour of colonised countries but now expect developing nations to be mindful of not causing damage to the environment.
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Such efforts -NGT- do not work
NGT has no real teeth and its bite is inconsequential
Simply put those who fail to obey the adopted environmental regulations should be punished even if they are IAS officers.
Obeying civic rules is not fashionable
One option is to stop all construction of homes and commercial buildings in a city because the City government is not following the rules by Court order. Then the power structure takes action
It has worked in other countries
The NGT was never a “grand” structure. It is an incompetent institution meant for post retirement employment of complaint SC judges.
The sooner it is scrapped, the better it will be.
It was the brainchild of the National Advisory Council (NAC) – a patently unconstitutional body.
Such efforts -NGT- do not work
NGT has no real teeth and its bite is inconsequential
Simply put those who fail to obey the adopted environmental regulations should be punished even if they are IAS officers.
Obeying civic rules is not fashionable
One option is to stop all construction of homes and commercial buildings in a city because the City government is not following the rules by Court order. Then the power structure takes action
It has worked in other countries
The NGT was never a “grand” structure. It is an incompetent institution meant for post retirement employment of complaint SC judges.
The sooner it is scrapped, the better it will be.
It was the brainchild of the National Advisory Council (NAC) – a patently unconstitutional body.