Like every year, this year also we will follow our
tradition by taking a pledge to protect the environment, but the same question
still remains serious that will we make this resolution a reality? The covid
pandemic and the recent two storms have again proved that the deepening crisis
on nature is becoming more and more severe day by day. By discussing
environmental issues in seminars and seminars, we often assume that our
responsibility has been fulfilled. Certainly the contribution of constitutional
provisions and the efforts of the court is important in increasing the
sensitivity towards the environment. Before going into the related provisions
included in the Constitution of India, we will look here at one such idea of
Mahatma Gandhi which will inspire us to move forward in this direction.
Gandhiji has said, 'The earth has enough resources to satisfy the needs of all
human beings, but not to satisfy the greed'.
This means that nature provides sufficient amount of
resources for survival and conservation of biodiversity, but if we over-exploit
them for our selfishness, then on one hand it will cause environmental
degradation and on the other hand it will also affect the existence of human
beings and it will cause serious trouble. In this background it is necessary to
understand what we should do through constitutional provisions. The first
international conference on the protection of the human environment was held in
Stockholm in the year 1972. After its approval by India, Article 48 (A) and
Article 51 (A) were added in the year 1976 by the 42nd Constitutional
Amendment, in which the responsibility of protecting the environment has been
entrusted to the state and the citizens respectively. In addition, this
amendment included several subjects of the State List in the Concurrent List,
such as forest in entry 17(a), wild life in 17(b) and population control and
family planning in 20(a).
Dr. Deepak Miglani, Email id.:- legalbuddy@gmail.com
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