A Pune based environmental consultant for industries, Dr. C. P. Vibhute, has termed the report on Western Ghats by the committee of experts headed by Dr. Madhav Gadgil, as incomplete, erroneous and technically faulty and has demanded that it be scrapped.
Dr. Vibhute has released a Press Note (in Marathi) consisting of 16 objections against the WGEEP Report. Dr. Madhav Gadgil and other members of the panel have prepared a point by point rebuttal of objections raised by Dr. Vibhute.
We present below, English translation of Dr. Vibhute’s objections together with the clarification to each of the points, released by Dr. Madhav Gadgil, on behalf of the WGEEP (Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel), constituted by the Ministry of Environment & Forests’ (MoEF) of the Central Government.
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