Parliament Panel Rejects Report Seeking to Streamline Green Laws | Read

The government's efforts to 'streamline' green laws has run into trouble with Parliament's standing committee on science and technology and environment seeing red over the move. Congress lawmaker and former Minister Dr Ashwani Kumar who chairs the parliamentary panel, said on Saturday that the committee had rejected the TSR Subramanium committee report which had suggested radical changes in environmental laws. The NDA government had last year set up the high-powered committee under TSR Subramanium to examine India's six principal environment laws and recommend streamlining environment clearances as well as better protection of the environment.