Sustainable development to guide policies of the environment ministry

Environment minister is emphasising on sustainable development to drive its green initiatives to ensure growth without causing any harm to the environment. “The ministry will work as a facilitator in pursuing the goal of sustainable development by bring in transparency, removing bottlenecks and encouraging people’s participation,” said Prakash Javadekar, minister for environment, forest & climate change, while launching the e-book of the ministry.
 
Outlining the vision for the ministry in 2015, Javadekar said that sustainable development without destruction, green growth and poverty eradication were the principles that would guide the initiatives and policies of the ministry.
 
Unveiling the agenda for 2015 for the ministry, the minister said that bringing transparency in processes, bringing in time bound disposal of applications, stress on compliance through monitoring, public participation, priority for greening the degraded forest, providing ease of doing business by removing bottlenecks were being given high priority. Prakash Javadekar stressed the need for India to effectively put forward its stand in Conference of Parties –CoP21 that is scheduled to be held in Paris this year.
 
Javadekar said, “People’s participation was central to the developmental process. The ministry will initiate several public campaigns for turning degraded lands into urban greens, making the environment plastic bags free, restoration of lakes and rivers. Youth will be the special focus of these campaigns.”
 
Environment ministry has designed Smart E-book to give maximum impact with least text using videos, audio and images. The e-book will also be launched in Hindi and is friendly for the differently-abled. The Smart E-book is mobile friendly and can be easily readable on all mobile platforms such as iOS, Android and Windows.