Tag: environmental law
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Water Degradation in India: Any Hope for the Future?
If the recent reports are to be believed, India is hurtling headfirst towards Day Zero. Several cities will run out of groundwater by 2020. India’s demand for water will surpass its supply resources by 2030. This will affect the quality of life across India and stagnate the country’s development.
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Coastal Regulation Zones and Economic Development: Is Ecological Dilution the Cost of Progress?
By Debarati Choudhury, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad. Story So Far: The Coastal Regulation Zone Notification of 2019 has cleared the way for commercialisation and development projects in Mumbai, while racing towards a more vulnerable ecology. The proposal of lifting restrictions from over 6,070 kilometres of the coastline for commercial activities has rung alarms…
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Real Estate Development in Mumbai: The Environmental Cost of Urbanisation
By Naresh Babu Kunche, Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellow. Mumbai witnessed thriving industrialization in the 1900s followed by rapid urbanisation in the post-independence period. What started of as a conglomeration of seven islands, gradually kept undergoing land reclamation, and transformed into the financial capital of India.
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Symposium on Public Policy: Urbanisation and Environmental Policies
LexQuest Foundation is organizing an immersive one-day public policy symposium, for students and young professionals. The Symposium aims to reflect on the environmental policies and analyze their impact concerning the contemporary urban growth landscape of our country. The discussions and presentations will focus on the need to better the present legislative framework and to fill the…
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LexQuest’s 1st National Environmental Law and Policy Essay Writing Competition, 2018
Having successfully organized four National Essay Writing Competitions in the past, to promote original legal writing and research work in the field of law, we are delighted to bring to you the first edition of our National Environmental Law and Policy Essay Writing Competition. With India as the second most populous country in the world, we…
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Judiciary and the Environmental Protection Laws in India
By Anshika Juneja, Symbiosis Law College, Pune. It is fascinating to note that natural resources have been put away virtually untouched in the Earth for a large number of years. Be that as it may, since the beginning of the industrial revolution, immeasurable measures of these resources had been exploited within a period of only two…
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Are Indian Courts Eco-centric?
By Ritu Rathi, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University. “Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then you will find that money cannot be eaten.” Anthropocentrism is a human-focused approach where non-humans have just instrumental…
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Polluter Pays Principle: An Analysis
By Deepti Purwar, Law College Dehradun. Saving the environment is the need of the hour. Environment refers to the sum total of what is around us i.e. Plants, animals, humans. We cannot live without other fellow beings and our surroundings but the celerity with which we are destroying the environment will only lead to the destruction…
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Environmental Law: Indian Scenario
By Deepali Bagla, Pravin Gandhi College of Law, Mumbai. India has always been conscious about the environment and it has been framing laws to protect the environment even before it got independence. The development of Indian laws relating to environment protection is divided into two aspects i.e. Pre 1972 Development and Post 1972 Development. Before…
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National Green Tribunal: An Analysis
By Siddhant Sharma, Amity Law School, Jaipur. The setting up of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) was a result of lack of expert knowledge needed to settle cases relating to environmental issues. Indian Courts had been entertaining environmental issues by the means of writs and PILs, but the technicalities were missed by the judiciary as…