A proposal to have a 'climate change' budget subhead, on the lines of a gender budget, incorporated in the national accounts and the annual Budget documents of the Union government was floated at a
The committee has suggested an umbrella law to help set up new national and state-level regulators that would also take the powers of the existing pollution control boards
The central government is working to substantially cut red tape at the environment ministry by doing away with multiple applications for all the green clearances that a project developer requires.