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- (File photo) Jairam Ramesh - PTI.
Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh has more than once declared his resolve to have 30% forest cover in the country but the big question is whether he is fighting a losing battle against the proponents of development.
Earlier this month, Mr Ramesh, during a visit to Bengaluru, had said one of his top priorities is getting a `No go area’ demarcated along the ecologicaly sensitive Western Ghats, so that the flora and fauna there are not affected by development projects.
However, at the central level, events are not taking the course Mr Ramesh would have liked them to. A Group of Ministers (GoM), comprising Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, home minister P. Chidambaram and Planning Commission chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, are looking into the various projects for which environmental clearances were sought and were turned down by the ministry of environment and forests(MOEF).
His talk lacks both comprehension and conviction; also deficient in political will!
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