Targeting a 9% plus growth rate in the Twelfth plan period, the Government has initiated an exercise to assess the impact of economic growth on the environment.

An expert group, headed by environmental economist Partha Dasgupta, will provide a road map for Green National Accounting (GNA) system to evaluate impact of economic growth on environment by 2015.

New Delhi Even as the debate on environment versus growth continues, the government on Monday said it will conduct an assessment of the impact of GDP growth on ecology using a green accounting system.

An interim report on

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Seeing the unregulated mining and quarrying operations in various parts of the country (not to mention those under the very nose of policy makers and regulators) that disproportionately benefit the operators and harm (net and long term) the uninformed communities in the vicinity in particular, and the citizens in general, and being guided by the much proclaimed development beacon - GNH, I make thi

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Their report captures the urgent concerns of the most marginalised, neglected communities
Civil society groups have recommended that the Approach Paper to the 12th Five Year Plan provide access to essential entitlements and development opportunities for the marginalised and increase investments in public services such as health, education, skill development, training and infrastructure building.

It will be a major improvement over current system, says Jairam Ramesh
The Union government is in the process of setting up a National Environmental Appraisal and Monitoring Authority (NEAMA) as part of efforts to bring in institutional reforms and improve environmental governance, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here on Tuesday.

The Minister was deliveri

The high living standards of the population in the west have been maintained by drawing from the ecological resources of the developing countries and this fact of environmental debt has been largely unrecognized or has not been researched up to now.

The externalities or costs to the environment are not fully paid for goods consumed in the west, which cause environmental or ecological damage in

New Delhi The Indian economy should grow at 8.5% in the current fiscal, the same level as in 2010-11, but inflation will continue to remain a concern unless international oil prices come down, economic think National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) said on Thursday.

The official GDP growth projection for the past fiscal is 8.6%.