Re: NCAP (National Clean Air Programme) India Published - Response sought by 17th May

[Rohit Parakh]

Hi All - just sending an updated writeup with an attempt to cover (not complete by any means but) wider gaps on National Clean Air Programme policy draft. This touches wildlife (polluted air has an impact on animals, birds, fishes), agriculture (beyond stubble burning, pesticides/fertilizers have an impact on air pollution too), forests, fossil fuel subsidies, impact on health, environment-friendly housing, waste management. 

Links below, last date of submission is 17th May, 2018. Email at shrut...@nic.in Feel free to translate in local languages. Hopefully this helps in getting more awareness and submissions going.

Regards,

Rohit

On 26 April 2018 at 14:26, Rohit Parakh <rohit...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Some of you might have heard that the NCAP (National Clean Air Programme) has been published here below. Given clean air/air pollution touches many aspects (forests, waste management, agriculture, transport, fossil fuel/energy/renewable energy, subsidy accountability, healthcare, construction, architecture for indoor pollution) there are a huge variety of points that must be properly reflected and implemented. This also provides an opportunity for different stakeholders to come together as well.

Last date of submission is 17th May 2018. Comments to be sent to Dr Shruti Raj Bhardwaj (MoEF&CC) ; email at shrut...@nic.in

Policy document here below -

http://www.moef.gov.in/sites/default/files/NCAP%20with%20annex-ilovepdf-compressed.pdf

Low Media Coverage/Gaps in Policy - 

Given media coverage has been quite low (both in number of reports and lack of detailed coverage) on this (compared to lets say National Forest Policy document), I thought it was important that we make an attempt to get this in wider media domain. There are lot of gaps in the policy document, I've made an attempt to capture some of these here too ; sharing here in case these are of help.

Next Steps - 

1) We still have time to mobilize and do a mass submission on this too as was done for National Forest Policy draft, encouraging common people to reach out in large numbers too. Will be great if we can have similar websites setup to help with submissions, twitter campaign etc as for Draft National Forest Policy. Those who can help pls reply back to this too (rohit...@gmail.com).

2) Please do forward it to individuals/organisations working in related domains so that we can have large scale submissions.

Regards,

Rohit Parakh

PS - Sorry for cross posting