Environment ministry sets up new panel replacing SC's Central Empowered Committee Government to nominate and appoint all the members of the new CEC , sparking debate over independence concerns
Environment
On September 5 this year, the MoEFCC (the MoEF was reconstituted as the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in 2014) issued a revised notification for reconstituting the CEC. The new-look CEC would comprise solely of bureaucrats, retired or serving, and would report to the MoEFCC and not to the SC. Since the MoEFCC itself is the root cause of almost all the problems that the CEC was originally set up to deal with, this has reduced the entire exercise into a farce.Let us look at some of the important issues that the CEC has had to deal with in the past.There is little doubt that in the initial years of its formation, the CEC has done yeoman service to the cause of protecting our environment.
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