Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
	Emblem of India
Agency overview
Formed	1947
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	Indira Paryavaran Bhavan, Jorbagh Road, New Delhi
Annual budget	₹3,100 crore (US$430 million) (2020-21 est.)
Ministers responsible	Bhupender Yadav, Cabinet Minister; Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State;
Agency executives	C.K. Mishra, IAS, Secretary (EF&CC); Sanjay Kumar IFS, Director General of Forests and Special Secretary;
Website	www.moef.nic.in

Template:Wildlife of India The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is an Indian government ministry. The ministry portfolio is currently held by Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.^[3]

The ministry is responsible for planning, promoting, coordinating, and overseeing the implementation of environmental and forestry programmes in the country. The main activities undertaken by the ministry include conservation and survey of the flora of India and fauna of India, forests and other wilderness areas; prevention and control of pollution; afforestation, and land degradation mitigation. It is responsible for the administration of the 1947 national parks of India.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is the cadre controlling authority of the Indian Forest Service (IFS), one of the three All India Services.

History[edit]

Environmental debates were first introduced into the national political agenda during Indira Gandhi's first term as Prime Minister of India. The 4th Five-Year Plan (1969–74), for example, proclaimed "harmonious development [...] on the basis of a comprehensive appraisal of environmental issues." In 1977 (during the Emergency) Gandhi added Article 48A to the constitution stating that: "The State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wildlife of the country." The same decree transferred wildlife and forests from state list to concurrent list of the constitution, thus giving the central government the power to overrule state decisions on that matter. Such political and constitutional changes prepared the groundwork for the creation of a federal Department of Environment in 1980, turned into the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 1985.^[4] Although tackling climate change was already a responsibility of the ministry, its priority was raised when in May 2014 the ministry was renamed to the current title of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.^[5]

Organisation[edit]

Indian Forest Service (IFS)
Authorities
- Central Zoo Authority of India, New Delhi,
- National Biodiversity Authority, Chennai
- National Tiger Conservation Authority, New Delhi
Subordinate offices
- Andaman & Nicobar Islands Forest and Plantation Development Corporation (Public Sector Undertaking)
- Animal Welfare Board of India, Chennai
- Botanical Survey of India (BSI), Kolkata
- Central Pollution Control Board
- Environmental Information System (ENVIS) founded 1983^[6]
- Odisha State Pollution Control Board
- Delhi Pollution Control Committee
- Directorate of Forest Education
- Forest Survey of India
- Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy
- National Afforestation and Eco-Development Board
- National Board of Wildlife
- National Institute of Animal Welfare
- National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), New Delhi
- National Zoological Park (NZP), New Delhi
- Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata
Centres of excellence
- Centre for Environment Education, Ahmedabad
- C. P. R. Environmental Education Centre, Chennai
- Centre for Animals and Environment, Bangalore
- Centre of Excellence in Environmental Economics, Chennai
- Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions, Bangalore
- Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore
- Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystem, Delhi
- Centre for Mining Environment, Dhanbad
- Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON), Coimbatore
- Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute,^[7] Thiruvananthapuram
Autonomous institutions
- G. B.Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development, Almora
- Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal
- Indian Plywood Industries Research and Training Institute, Bengaluru
- Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), Dehradun
- Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, India

List Of Ministers[edit]

No	Name	Term of office			Party	Prime Minister
1	Rajiv Gandhi	31 December 1984	22 October 1986	1 year, 295 days	Indian National Congress	Rajiv Gandhi
2	Bhajan Lal	22 October 1986	14 February 1988	1 year, 115 days
3	Ziaur Rahman Ansari (Independent Charge till 25 June 1988)	14 February 1988	02 December 1989	1 year, 291 days
4	V. P. Singh	02 December 1989	23 April 1990	142 days	Janata Dal	V. P. Singh
5	Nilamani Routray	23 April 1990	10 November 1990	201 days	Janata Dal	V. P. Singh
6	Maneka Gandhi (Independent Charge)	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar
7	Kamal Nath (Independent Charge)	21 June 1991	15 September 1995	4 years, 86 days	Indian National Congress	P. V. Narasimha Rao
8	Rajesh Pilot (Independent Charge)	15 September 1995	16 May 1996	244 days	Indian National Congress	P. V. Narasimha Rao
9	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 May 1996	01 June 1996	16 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
10	H. D. Deve Gowda	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	28 days	Janata Dal	H. D. Deve Gowda
11	Jai Narain Prasad Nishad	29 June 1996	21 February 1997	237 days	Janata Dal	H. D. Deve Gowda
12	Saifuddin Soz	21 February 1997	19 March 1998	1 year, 26 days	Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral
13	Suresh Prabhu	19 March 1998	13 October 1999	1 year, 208 days	Shiv Sena	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
14	T. R. Baalu	13 October 1999	21 December 2003	4 years, 69 days	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
(9)	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	21 December 2003	09 January 2004	19 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
15	Ramesh Bais (Independent Charge)	09 January 2004	22 May 2004	134 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
16	A. Raja	23 May 2004	15 May 2007	2 years, 357 days	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Manmohan Singh
17	Manmohan Singh	15 May 2007	22 May 2009	2 years, 7 days	Indian National Congress
18	Jairam Ramesh (Independent Charge)	28 May 2009	12 July 2011	2 years, 45 days
19	Jayanthi Natarajan (Independent Charge)	12 July 2011	21 December 2013	2 years, 162 days
20	M. Veerappa Moily	21 December 2013	26 May 2014	156 days
21	Prakash Javdekar (Independent Charge)	26 May 2014	05 July 2016	2 years, 40 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Narendra Modi
22	Anil Madhav Dave (Independent Charge)	05 July 2016	18 May 2017	317 days
23	Dr. Harsh Vardhan	18 May 2017	30 May 2019	2 years, 12 days
24	Prakash Javdekar	30 May 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 38 days
25	Bhupender Yadav	7 July 2021	Incumbent	3 years, 213 days

Ministers of State[edit]

Ministers of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Minister of state	Political party	Term		Days
Mahesh Sharma	Bharatiya Janata Party	3 September 2017	30 May 2019	634 days
Babul Supriyo		30 May 2019	7 July 2021	769 days
Ashwini Kumar Choubey		7 July 2021	Incubment	1309 days

Initiatives[edit]

In August 2019 Ministry of Environment released the Draft National Resource Efficiency Policy. It is a set of guidelines which envisions a future with environmentally sustainable and equitable economic growth. The policy is guided by principle of reduction in primary resource consumption; creation of higher value with less material through resource efficient circular approach; waste minimization; material security and creation of employment opportunities and business model beneficial to cause of environment protection and restoration.It was based on the report of NITI Aayog and European Union titled, The strategy on resource efficiency. The policy seeks to set up a National Resource Efficiency Authority with core working group housed in the Ministry. It also plans to offer tax benefits on recycled materials and soft loans to set up waste disposal and material recovery facilities.^[8]^[9]

References[edit]

↑ "Contact Us | Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Government of India". Moef.gov.in. 31 July 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
↑ "MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE DEMAND NO. 27 : Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change" (web). Indiabudget.gov.in. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
↑ "Following Anil Daves death, Dr Harsh Vardhan gets additional charge of environment". Indiatoday.intoday.in. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
↑ Sanjeev Khagram (2004) "Dams and Development", New York, Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-8907-5
↑ "Ministry of environment and forests undergoes a nomenclature change". The Economic Times. 28 May 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
↑ "About ENVIS".
↑ "Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute | Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Government of India". Envfor.nic.in. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
↑ "Comments called for on the Draft National Resource Efficiency Policy Released". Press Information Bureau. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
↑ "EU-India joint declaration on resource efficiency and circular economy(PDF)". Consilium.europa.eu. Retrieved 10 September 2020.

External links[edit]

[1] "Contact Us | Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Government of India". Moef.gov.in. 31 July 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2016.

[2] "MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE DEMAND NO. 27 : Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change" (web). Indiabudget.gov.in. Retrieved 16 August 2018.

[intoday.in-3] "Following Anil Daves death, Dr Harsh Vardhan gets additional charge of environment". Indiatoday.intoday.in. Retrieved 16 August 2018.

[Khagram-4] Sanjeev Khagram (2004) "Dams and Development", New York, Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-8907-5

[5] "Ministry of environment and forests undergoes a nomenclature change". The Economic Times. 28 May 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2016.

[6] "About ENVIS".

[7] "Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute | Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Government of India". Envfor.nic.in. Retrieved 16 June 2016.

[8] "Comments called for on the Draft National Resource Efficiency Policy Released". Press Information Bureau. Retrieved 10 September 2020.

[9] "EU-India joint declaration on resource efficiency and circular economy(PDF)". Consilium.europa.eu. Retrieved 10 September 2020.

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