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Industry’s most hated minister, Jairam Ramesh, whom his critics cite as the biggest treat to India’s GDP growth, stuck to his guns at the India Today Conclave.
Ever since he stepped into Paryavaran Bhawan in May 2009, Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment & Forests, has halted industrial projects at the rate of one a day, including many for clearances had been given as far as in 2006.
Addressing a session on “The way to a Green GDP”, Ramesh said there are fore concerns that had led him to his position on the tradeoff between growth & environment: livelihoods, public health, climate change & sustainability.
The MIT educated minister said that he was set in motion a process that will, by 2015, enable India to report a green GDP. Some evidence from World Bank report, “Changing Wealth of Nations” and a Cambridge university study suggest a substantial gap between GDP growth & real well-being measured by GDP adjusted for conservation of ecology & environment, he pointed out.
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