'India faces challenge of environmental degradation'
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AURANGABAD: A seminar on 'Law and Environment - Concerns and Challenges' was jointly organized by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) officers' association, the Environmental Research Foundation Education Academy and V N Patil Law College on Saturday.
The seminar was held at Einstein Hall in Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College. Justice V R Kingaonkar gave the inaugural speech at the seminar emphasizing nature's role in protecting people.
Kingaonkar, who is also chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), had introduced certain provisions to the NGT Act, 2010. He said laws should be framed to achieve environmental protection.
Sadhana Pandey, the head of the law department at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (BAMU), also addressed the audience saying that it is every citizen's duty to protect the environment.
Dhanaji Jadhav, principal of V N Patil Law College also spoke at the conference. He said, "People do not care about the environment as they consider that it is the responsibility of government and pollution control board. We need to create more awareness among all sections of society as laws are not the solution to all issues."
"As far as remedies available to the individual, organisations or public at large under various acts, they can file prosecution after giving 60 days' notice but in practice, very few have resorted to this remedy taking into consideration very technical nature of offences, non-availability of technical reports and data as well as vexatious nature of the proceedings in the court of law," he said.
The MPCB Aurangabad regional officer, Pravin Joshi said, "Around 30 papers were presented, which were received from across the state such as Pune, Nanded, Nagpur, Dhulia and Aurangabad."
These papers will be published in a book having ISBN number."
The seminar was held at Einstein Hall in Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College. Justice V R Kingaonkar gave the inaugural speech at the seminar emphasizing nature's role in protecting people.
Kingaonkar, who is also chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), had introduced certain provisions to the NGT Act, 2010. He said laws should be framed to achieve environmental protection.
Sadhana Pandey, the head of the law department at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (BAMU), also addressed the audience saying that it is every citizen's duty to protect the environment.
Dhanaji Jadhav, principal of V N Patil Law College also spoke at the conference. He said, "People do not care about the environment as they consider that it is the responsibility of government and pollution control board. We need to create more awareness among all sections of society as laws are not the solution to all issues."
"As far as remedies available to the individual, organisations or public at large under various acts, they can file prosecution after giving 60 days' notice but in practice, very few have resorted to this remedy taking into consideration very technical nature of offences, non-availability of technical reports and data as well as vexatious nature of the proceedings in the court of law," he said.
The MPCB Aurangabad regional officer, Pravin Joshi said, "Around 30 papers were presented, which were received from across the state such as Pune, Nanded, Nagpur, Dhulia and Aurangabad."
These papers will be published in a book having ISBN number."
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