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Book on pollution control laws released

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It is written in simple Kannada to create awareness among the people

— Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.

Released: (From left) Author S. Krishnamurthy; Radhakrishna, Surana College principal and former Chief Justice of Kerala High Court V.S. Malimath at the launch of the book in Bangalore on Monday.

Bangalore: Former Chief Justice of Kerala High Court V.S. Malimath, on Monday, called upon the State Government and the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board to publish books in simple Kannada to create awareness among the public, the officers and industrialists, about their duties and responsibilities in preserving a clean environment and the various laws enacted by the legislature which they have to observe in their daily life.

Constant vigil

Releasing a book on the “Role of law in promoting environmental awareness amongst people” authored by the former Director-General of Police S. Krishnamurthy, at a function organised at the board premises here, the former judge said that constant vigil was the only solution to many environment-related problems.

Recalling the Harihar Polyfibres case, in which he delivered a judgment restraining the factory from discharging effluents into River Tungabhadra, Mr. Malimath said that what he had observed from the arguments made out by the industrialists during the proceedings was that they had no concern for the plight of the residents and the animals living in the surroundings in which they discharged effluents.

Environment policy

The 256-page book in Kannada contains information on the national environmental policy, various international agreements, environmental impact study, climate change, ozone layers, rain forests, waste disposal, endangered species and judgments on different cases which are all educative and informative.

N.L. Mitra of the National Law School of India University was present on the occasion.

K.E. Radhakrishna, principal of the Surana College, decried the tendency of the urban people to destroy villages and uproot inhabitants, who had been protecting the environment and ecology in their surroundings for years, in the name of development.

The board Chairman H.C. Sharat Chandra said that the Government was still thinking of ways of supplying clean drinking water to the entire population in Bangalore even after 30 years of the water and air Acts were enacted. A large number of towns in Karnataka had no sewage facility, which spoke of the need for maintaining clean environment. It was time that environment rights be made a human right, he added.

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