It’s just gone by, 5 June or World Environment Day. Once again there were email alerts, text messages and announcements about pristine nature and assurances of its protection. Planting of trees, a symbolic act, was repeated. The Union Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change celebrated the day with the theme of connecting people with nature.
Now that all the events are done and dusted, let’s look at how much environment is really a priority in India.
Take, for instance, one of the longest standing issues facing environment governance in India — the manner in which. . .
