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  • Kerala floods: Jairam Ramesh flays non implementation of Gadgil panel report

    By PTI

    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh on Sunday blamed the non implementation of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel report authored by eminent ecologist Madhav Gadgil in 2011, as the main motive for frequent occurrences of devastating floods and landslides in hilly areas of Kerala.

    “Whenever there is a natural disaster in Kerala, the Madhav Gadgil’s Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel report of 2011 is recalled. A decade later it remains unimplemented despite devastating floods in 2018 and 2020”, Ramesh wrote on Twitter, a day after flash floods and landslides wreaked havoc killing individuals and damaging properties in hilly areas of Kerala’s Kottayam and Idukki districts.

    The former Union Environment Minister informed PTI that the report has persevering with relevance for the whole Western Ghats extending over six states however sadly it has been mothballed whereas ecological destruction continues unabated.

    His assertion comes as many social media customers raised the necessity of implementing Gadgil committee report in defending the ecology of Western Ghats, one of many world’s largest biodiversity hotspots, within the gentle of latest floods.

    The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel, often known as Gadgil Commission headed by ecologist Madhav Gadgil, was an environmental analysis fee appointed in 2010 by Ramesh, when he was union setting minister within the Manamohan Singh-led UPA authorities.

    The fee submitted its report back to the federal government on August 31, 2011 during which it had really helpful 64 per cent of the Western Ghats space be declared as an ecologically delicate space.

    However, later in 2012, the ministry fashioned a working group on Western Ghats underneath Indian area scientist Okay Kasturirangan to look at the Gadgil Committee report.

    He mentioned the Kasturirangan report drastically diminished the world to be shielded from 64 per cent to 37 per cent and likewise denied any function to democratically elected native our bodies in defending the hills.

  • ‘Is his boss listening’: Jairam Ramesh’s jibe after Nitin Gadkari bats for extra licenses for vaccines

    A day after Union Minister Nitin Gadkari prompt that extra pharma corporations ought to be allowed to make Covid-19 vaccines within the nation, Congress chief Jairam Ramesh took to Twitter and mentioned that this was prompt by the previous Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
    “But is his Boss listening? This is what Dr. Manmohan Singh had suggested on April 18th,” the Congress chief wrote on Twitter.

    But is his Boss listening? This is what Dr. Manmohan Singh had prompt on April 18th. https://t.co/iqgPgJJ6Y7
    — Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) May 19, 2021
    Addressing vice-chancellors of universities in India just about on Tuesday, Gadkari mentioned: “If the demand for the vaccine is more than supply then it creates a problem. So, instead of one company, let 10 more companies be given the license to manufacture the vaccine. First let them supply in the country and later if there is surplus, they may export.”

    Gadkari’s remarks comply with related feedback by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who had written to the Prime Minister, saying the Centre ought to share the vaccine system of the 2 producers with different succesful pharmaceutical corporations to scale up manufacturing.

    In his letter to PM Modi on April 18, Manmohan Singh requested the Centre to make public particulars of the orders positioned by the Government for Covid vaccine doses and point out the technique for them to be distributed in a clear method.
    Vaccinations had been opened to all adults from May 1 and the centre mentioned states and personal hospitals may purchase doses straight from producers. However, the crippling scarcity of vaccines has hit vaccinations in a number of states and lots of have placed on maintain the drive for adults under 45.

  • Day later, two Congress MPs distance themselves from panel report on farm legislation

    A day after a Standing Committee report that requested the federal government to implement the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 in “letter and spirit” was tabled in Parliament, Congress MPs who’re a part of the panel on Saturday tried to disassociate themselves from it.
    While Congress chief Rahul Gandhi referred to as for withdrawal of all three farm legal guidelines, and his occasion colleague Jairam Ramesh referred to as the report a “misrepresentation”, TMC Rajya Sabha member Derek O’Brien referred to as it a “con job”.
    BJP MP Ajay Misra Teni, who as appearing chairman presided over the committee assembly on March 18, nevertheless, stated the report was adopted with consensus of all members.
    The Act is likely one of the three contentious legal guidelines in opposition to which farmers are protesting. Members of TMC, AAP, NCP and Shiv Sena are additionally a part of the panel.
    In a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Congress MP Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka (Koraput) stated, “I write to you to dissociate myself from the Eleventh Report of the Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution on the subject material—‘Price Rise of Essential Commodities—Causes and Effects’ adopted on 18.03.2021 and tabled in Parliament in each Houses on 19.03.2021.
    “Further, the Report recommends to the Government … ‘to implement the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 in letter and spirit…’ I completely dissociate myself with this recommendation, and record my dissent to the Report, in line with the stand expressed by the Congress, in both Houses of Parliament and in various press conferences and public meetings, where we have opposed [the law] tooth and nail…”
    Ulaka’s two-page letter, dated March 20, was additionally despatched to the Rajya Sabha Chairman and chairman of the Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution.
    Ulaka stated, “In fact, during the meeting on 16.12.2020, I expressed my opposition against the three farm laws to the Hon’ble Chairperson and the members of the Committee.”
    Ulaka stated, “The Draft Report on the subject matter was circulated only via e-mail by the related Section of the Committee at 19:00 hrs on 17.03.2021 and adopted between 10:00 hrs and 10:30 hrs on 18.03.2021, under Acting Chairperson Shri Ajay Misra Teni.”
    He stated the report was tabled in Parliament with out recording his dissenting opinion. “I was not present when the report was adopted as the meeting was called in a short notice of merely 15 hours…,” he stated.
    “Therefore, it is highly irregular that such an important Report was circulated at a very short notice, and without recording any dissenting opinion, was tabled in Parliament,” Ulaka stated.
    The report, in addition to the Lok Sabha web site, mentions Ulaka’s title within the record of members who attended the committee assembly on March 18, the day the report was adopted.
    Congress Lok Sabha MP from Kasaragod, Rajmohan Unnithan, additionally wrote to the Lok Sabha Speaker, Rajya Sabha Chairman and chairman of the Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution.
    Unnithan advised The Sunday Express over the cellphone from Thiruvananthapuram that the committee’s assembly had earlier been postponed twice as a result of lack of quorum. “This time they held the meeting on March 17, which I could not attend. I have written to the Speaker to dissociate myself from the report.”
    BJP member Teni advised The Sunday Express, “No member of the committee gave me the dissent note. The report was adopted with consensus of all members.”
    Two different Congress members — Ve. Vaithilingam and Rajmani Patel — couldn’t be reached for a remark.
    Reiterating his demand for repeal of the three farm legal guidelines, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi tweeted, “Krishi virodhi sarkar ko teenon kanoon wapas lene hi honge. 56 chhodo, ham ek inch bhi peeche nahin hatenge! (This anti-farmer government must withdraw all three laws. Forget 56, we will not retreat even an inch).”

    Congress’s Ramesh tweeted: “MPs of the Congress party DID NOT ask for implementation of the Essential Commodities Act. The Standing Committee Report is a misrepresentation!”
    TMC’s O’Brien tweeted: “This is the BJP cheap ‘n dirty tricks department in action. Con job was done when Chairman of #Parliament Committee was not at meeting. @aitc position on #FarmLaws and Essential Commodities Act well documented. Withdraw draconian laws #FarmersProtest.”

  • Congress manifesto implementation committee assembly at present, will embrace CM Bhupesh, Jairam Ramesh, PL Punia

    The Congress Charter Implementation Committee could have an necessary assembly at present. This assembly will likely be held at 5 pm by means of video conferencing. There will likely be a dialogue on the completion of the manifesto within the assembly quickly.
    The assembly will likely be attended by Chief Minister Baghel, PCC Chief Mohan Markam. Committee convenors Jairam Ramesh, PL Punia and Randeep Surajwala may also attend the assembly.