Welcoming a parliamentary panel's recommendation of setting a new committee to review green laws, a Delhi-based green body said that evaluation of existing systems have become an "absolute necessity".

The Standing Committee on Science and Technology and Environment and Forest in its report had recommended formation of a new committee to consider afresh specific areas of environmental policy after it found the objections raised by experts on the proposals of a high level committee constituted to review green laws as "valid"."A review of our environmental laws has become an absolute necessity as the existing systems are not working well. We need major reforms in green laws and institutions that implement these laws," said Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in response to the recent move.............Read more

Source web page: The Economic Times