IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN INDIA

Abstract

The Ministry of Environment and Forest and Climate Change is the Nodal Agency in India for Policy Making and Implementation of the various matters pertaining to Environmental Issues. It consists of the following Organisations, under the direction of the Ministry for the day to day Administrative work of the Ministry.

1. Regional Offices
2. Subordinate Offices
3. Autonomous Organisations
4. Authorities/Tribunals
5. Boards
6. Institutes

National Environmental Policy 2006: The Following are the Objectives of the National Environment Policy: 1. To protect and conserve critical ecological systems and resources and invaluable natural and man-made heritage, which are essential for the life support, livelihoods, economic growth, and a broad conception of human well-being. 2. To ensure equitable access to environmental resources and quality for all sections of society. 3. To ensure judicious use of environmental resources to meet the needs and aspirations of the present and future generations. 4. To integrate environmental concerns into policies, plans, programmes, and projects for economic and social development. 5. To ensure efficient use of environmental resources in the sense of reduction in their use per unit of economic output, to minimise adverse environmental impacts. 6. To apply the principles of good governance (transparency, rationality, accountability, reduction in time and costs, participation, and regulatory independence) to the management and regulation of use of environmental resources. 7. To ensure higher resources flows, comprising finance, technology, management skills, traditional knowledge, and social capital for environmental conservation through mutually beneficial multi-stakeholder partnership between local communities, public agencies, the academic and research community, investors, and multilateral and bilateral development partners.