Dear Madam / Sir,

Comment on NEP on behalf of Master Plan Implementation
Support Group has been sent vide letter of 26.10.2004.


For reasons stated therein the letter has been sent to
Secretary MoEF and is posted on the web and the url,
for information / record via response eml id, is:
http://plan.architexturez.net/site/dmp2021/ncmp/h/041026

In continuation of eml of 18.09.04 details of planning
and development experts involved in drafting NEP are
again requested.

Yours sincerely,
Gita Dewan Verma, MPISG Planner

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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 03:23:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gita Dewan Verma <[email protected]>
Subject: Request for DNSP text in html or doc
format, etc
To: [email protected]

Dear Sir / Madam,

Draft National Environment Policy (DNEP), posted at
http://envfor.nic.in/nep.htm says it is "intended to
mainstream environmental concerns in all development
activities" (p.3) and "key environmental challenges
... relate to the nexus of environmental degradation
with poverty ... and economic growth" (p.3).
However,
it makes no reference to planning and development
law
that does address these challenges or to processes
of
its subversion that do pose an emergent key
challenge.


I wish to comment on DNEP from this perspective and
would be grateful for the text in html or doc
format.
Actually I would prefer to discuss this with
planning
and development experts involved in DNEP, which does
say it was "prepared through a process of extensive
consultation with experts, as well as diverse
stakeholders, and this process is also documented"
(p.3), though chapter-6 (Process of formulation of
this policy) only says "(To be documented on
completion of the formulation process)" (p.39). I
would be grateful for names, etc, of planning and
development experts involved.

I also seek clarification of how DNEP connects to
National Common Minimum Programme (not itself being
an
NCMP commitment while incorporating ideas for issues
that are NCMP priorities for which other policy
initiatives are expected).

Yours sincerely,
Gita Dewan Verma, Planner