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@K D Bhardwaj: CSR is important and should go beyond just the corporates. In fact, semi-governmental organisations also need to include it in their mandate while the Govt. should be sensitive towards environmental issues in making any decision it has to.

At the same time, CSR needs to go beyond just ‘corporate’ and we must also emphasize the need for ‘Citizens Social Responsibility’ as well.

How many ministry offices are ISO 14001 certified or energy audited? This is the simplest thing to start with commitment on Environment and climate change.

How much paper/resources/energy wastage do take place in these offices?

We are not even able to tackle municipal soild waste management problem in Delhi even after spending crores of rupees so far ?

Minister sits right in Delhi and witnesses these problems everyday.

Does government follow Green Procurement Policy ?

How many staff of government offices are aware about basic environmental issues annd this very lack of awareness ultimately results in environmentally poor decison making.

Someitmes i feel that we raise big issues in such fourms and end up covering small problems, which are right at the root of big problems.

“Ms. Bahar Dutt of CNN-IBN and Ms. Madhur Motwani of YouthReach raised the issue of the tree fellings taking place in the city owing to the massive construction work. Both of them were particularly concerned with the ineffective transplantation of trees. Ms. Motwani explained the transplantation of a tree as aborting of a child and putting it somewhere else. Mr. Dadoo responded with stating that he understood the complexities involved in such a situation very well and that permissions to transplant trees were given least priority by his Department.”

That’s indeed sad! I know that the process of transplanting trees is indeed quite complicated, but it should be seen that the need shouldn’t arise in the first place. Theere are umpteen examples of development-plans being modified, transformed & even scrapped due to the conflicting interests of the residents of ‘illegal-colonies, land-mafia, high-profile people etc.
Why is that the ‘greens’ are always given the least priority by the govt.?

“Further, Mr. Ranmal Jhala inquired about what the Government was doing to promote cycles in the city. He was informed that within its capacity the Government had plans to promote cycles but that it was first important to promote the use of Metro that had been brought into the city at a huge cost and that though popular, a lot of Delhi’s population still prefers to use cars, etc. to reach places.”

Whatever happened to the various cycle-lanes that were proposed & built alongside the busy-roads of Delhi?

………..Did anybody just mention illegal-occupation of the lanes over here? Oh pardon me, I must be hearing things..;-)