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The Gadgil Report highlighted the need for ecological conservation in the Western Ghats and faced resistance due to its recommendations for ecologically sensitive zones.
Prof Gadgil's appeal for a better and deeper understanding of his report was lost on Kerala.
Madhav Gadgil remained steadfast in warning that ecological collapse was the inevitable cost of unchecked growth.
Gadgil had warned about the places a few years ago.
The Forest Department map has excluded all human habitations, constructions and agricultural lands from the proposed ESZ.
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.
First came the deluge, and before they could breathe, the drought. Farmers in Idukki have been pushed over the brink.
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.
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