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Gadgil had warned about the places a few years ago.
In the latest notification on December 31, 2021, the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change amended the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, extending the deadline to notify the new rules till June 30, 2022, due to the Covid pandemic.
PT Thomas was a rare Congressman who could question both the Communists and the Church at one go.
Gadgil and the report prepared by the WGEEP headed by him are back in news after over two dozen people lost their lives in landslides and flash floods occurred in the past few days.
Ecologist Madhav Gadgil was honoured with The Week Man of the Year 2019 award.
Dr. V S Vijayan, a member of Gadgil Panel Committee and environmentalist questioned the greed of the citizens in the state who build houses more than 30,000 square feet in area.
Fear was whipped up saying no development would be possible in places branded Ecologically Sensitive Zone by the Gadgil report.
Kasturirangan Report was far milder than the stringent provisions of the Gadgil Report, yet the ministry has not been able to fully notify the recommendations due to protests from Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.
First came the deluge, and before they could breathe, the drought. Farmers in Idukki have been pushed over the brink.
The HLWG expresses shock at the 'perfunctory' manner in which Gadgil and team branded the entire Western Ghats as ecologically sensitive