Judges worry about environmental pollution

Jharkhand High Court Chief Justice Virendra Singh today said environment plays an important role in the life of human beings "from cradle to the grave".
Speaking at a seminar on 'Sustainable Development of State of Jharkhand', Justice Singh said protection of forestland and wild animals in Jharkhand should be a matter for concern, an release said.
The Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal, Swatanter Kumar, said three S's----social awareness, sincerity in implementation and security to environment----were essential for environmental protection.
The release quoted Supreme Court Justice Shiva Kriti Singh as saying that such seminars empowered participants with knowledge.
He said there was a need for assembling all stakeholders for setting goals, developmental strategy and a need for compilation of the deliberations at the seminar and their distribution among all relevant government departments.

Another Supreme Court Judge Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri lauded the efforts of Chairperson, National Green Tribunal, for his remarkable work.
"Our efforts towards environmental protection should proliferate vegetable cover on the earth," the release said quoting Justice Sikri, adding human beings should learn respecting life of other species as well.