BRIEF ON KP VENTURE WITH GOVERNING BODIES
Khushi Parisara recognizes that the fast-mounting notorious coastal environmental disaster, with its explicit points of erosion, mostly caused by the intense and widespread environmental illiteracy of governors, along a blatant inaction to enforce environmental laws needs an urgent stern enforcement of all framed Environmental rules.
Actually, the environmental concern is patently absent from governance, in huge opposition to the financial concern. And thus, the blatant violation of Environmental rules by legally responsible Public Servants in duty to implement them, brings inconceivable and unacceptable consequences – ecological, social and anthropological.
Citizens are warned that a new rule came, that a new law was added to the legal framework, that a new policy will guide its enforcement – ministers proclaim, press release announces – and so on, and so on, and so on… –, however no difference is brought to ground – where it should be.
Being increasingly aware of the systematic dilution of India’s Environmental laws, by the prevalent priority of setting commercial interest over environmental protection, Khushi Parisara understands that the ecological issues brought until now to the governing bodies are mostly irrelevant and tertiary, as the undergoing destruction of ecological legacy is serving corporates profit by exploiting natural resources – (de)regulating the Environment.
Exemplar dilution of environmental rules can be the thoroughly dismissed rule of law mandating the management of wastes by all stakeholders thru the sharp duties of liable authorities – as also the removal of clearance requirements for certain industrial projects in ecologically delicate milieus.
Notwithstanding, Khushi Parisara ventures to insist on the vast and precise issues that are uprising the vulnerability of the utmost sensitive coastal milieus. Then, trying to get the coordination of the responsible governing bodies to reverse the situation, Khushi Parisara submitted several addresses to the authorities.
However, if Khushi Parisara can trigger some punctual changes we cannot replace the liable authorities on their duties. We are just a society of eco-denizens, volunteers, whose activity aims to protect our natural resources, prioritizing them in all situations and contexts, urging our governors to value, protect and rescue them.
Considered this state of danger, our Group has been acting, and wants to keep acting, urging governors to understand the alarming limit of environmental ruin only possible to be tackled by a strategic environmental vision and action of governing bodies, executing responsible environmental governance, i. e., JUST doing their duty. It’s through the authority assigned to them for the implementation of rules (namely waste related ones) that Public Servants must gear the necessary changes to revert the current environmental degradation – an extraordinary move is required to break through their inertia and negligence.
It is not simply necessary to educate the ‘public’. Education has to start from the statutory authorities in order to avoid their failure to protect the environment. Daily we need to overcome ignorance, indifference and inaction of officers.
We tried to identify the statutory authorities with power (and duty) to compel decisions and actions to solve marine pollution issue (e.g., CS, Dev C, CDA/KDB, FEE, PPMS, Fisheries, Ports, Tourism, Coast Guard, UD/DMA, RDPR, LBs, KSPCB, SBM, DC and Lokayukta),
however…
our requests, petitions, appeals, representations are unreturned and no action has been taken – so far.
Is it because they are considered irrelevant, inappropriate, unworkable or too challenging?
KP Requests to Governing Bodies – 2023
Khushi Parisara, deeply involved in the coastal spectrum of moving activities, creating environmental understanding on development divides, catalysing the involvement of various stakeholders, is requesting policymakers and governors to prioritise the needful solutions for the current coastal environmental disastrous issues.
https://www.khushiparisara.in/kp-requests-to-governing-bodies-december-2023/
Requests to Governing Bodies – 2024
Khushi Parisara recognizes that the fast-mounting notorious coastal environmental disaster, with its explicit points of erosion, mostly caused by the intense and widespread environmental illiteracy of governors, along a blatant inaction to enforce environmental laws (as recurrently noticed by NGT) needs an urgent stern enforcement of all framed environmental rules.
Actually, the environmental concern is patently absent from governance, in huge opposition to the financial concern. And thus, the blatant violation of environmental rules by legally responsible Public Servants in duty to implement them, brings inconceivable and unacceptable consequences – ecological, social and anthropological.
One of the glitches is the claim by people in authority to need budget to solve the problems [of bad governance], pretending to ignore that, when given more funds the same track [of bad governance] will be kept, increased even.
Citizens are warned that a new rule came, that a new law was added to the legal framework, that a new policy will guide its enforcement – ministers proclaim, press release announces – and so on, and so on, and so on… –, however no difference is brought to ground – where it should be.
Being increasingly aware of the systematic dilution of India’s environmental laws by the prevalent priority of setting commercial interest over environmental protection, Khushi Parisara understands that the ecological issues brought until now to the governing bodies are mostly irrelevant and tertiary, as the undergoing destruction of ecological legacy is serving corporates profit by exploiting natural resources – (de)regulating the Environment.
Exemplar dilution of environmental rules can be the thoroughly dismissed rule of law mandating the management of wastes by all stakeholders thru the sharp duties of liable authorities – as also the removal of clearance requirements for certain industrial projects in ecologically delicate milieus.
And so, India’s environmental laws remain impotent unless their implementation is strengthened, only being effective through a stouter understanding of the barriers and gaps to their enforcement.
Notwithstanding, Khushi Parisara ventures to insist on the vast and precise issues that are uprising the vulnerability of the utmost sensitive coastal milieus. Then, trying to get the coordination of the responsible governing bodies to reverse the situation, Khushi Parisara submitted several addresses to the authorities.
https://www.khushiparisara.in/kp-requests-to-governing-bodies-december-2024/
Requests to Governing Bodies – 2025
Khushi Parisara can trigger some punctual changes BUT we cannot replace the liable authorities on their duties. We are just a society of eco-denizens, volunteers, whose activity aims to protect our natural resources, prioritizing them in all situations and contexts, urging our governors to value, protect and rescue them.
We recognize that the local notorious environmental disaster, with its explicit points of erosion, mainly caused by wastes mismanagement, is grounded on an intense and widespread local environmental illiteracy of governors, along a blatant lack of enforcement of environmental laws
Considered this state of danger, our Group has been acting, and wants to keep acting, urging governors to understand the alarming limit of environmental ruin only possible to be tackled by a strategic environmental vision and action of governing bodies, executing responsible environmental governance, i. e., JUST doing their duty. It’s through the authority assigned to them for the implementation of rules (namely waste related ones) that Public Servants must gear the necessary changes to revert the current environmental degradation – an extraordinary move is required to break through their inertia and negligence.
It is not simply necessary to educate the ‘public’. Education has to start from the statutory authorities in order to avoid their failure to protect the environment. Daily we need to overcome ignorance, indifference and inaction of officers.
We tried to identify the statutory authorities with power (and duty) to compel decisions and actions to solve marine litter issue (CDA, FEE, PPMS, Fisheries, Ports, Coast Guard, UD, RDPR, LBs, KSPCB, SBM)
For what we needed to understand which Rules were/are blatantly violated by officers in duty, which were the effects, how it should have been done rightfully for the correct results in a way that issues should not repeat and how ensure that environmental hazards be consistently prevented.
It should be recalled the forgotten principle related to our work…
Knowledge is required to make decisions…
https://www.khushiparisara.in/requests-to-governing-bodies-january-2025/
ECO-AWARENESS/ ECO-WISENESS for a SUSTAINABILITY ROADMAP
Development at cost of biodiversity is a wreck, a warning mark of the environmental disregard of uncontrolled growth. And thus, biodiversity disaster is triggering a public health emergency born from the anthropogenic ecological collapse.
The state retreats from ecological responsibility, with the government discharging its duty to protect environment by surrendering to the corporate control, to the power of private over commons. On this ground, successive governments handed over country’s common wealth (grasslands, riverbeds, beaches, mangroves, seawaters, forests, etc.) to profit-driven companies, turning down commons to tradeable commodities. And so, farming and fisher communities, for example, are being displaced and dispossessed of their natural resources in the name of development.
When governments consider prosperity as a chatter pass for “development”, a marketing catchword exempted of assessment, private players easily grab the regulatory system doomed to protect common resources.
The Government sanction and promotion of private interests destroys wildlife, violates environmental ethics, raises serious questions about governance, accountability, and the cost of development at the expenses of environment. But this blatant disparity is just a sign of a higher disorder paving the way for development.
The attempt to bridge the seemingly contrasting worlds of trade and nature, can be triggered by an assessment of Development Pathways, chiefly focusing on the balance of human needs with environmental preservation, to understand that human development relies on two critical infrastructures, “ecological” (natural systems that provide vital resources) and “economic” (human-made systems, now evolved into industries), grounding the complex interdependence of a region’s ecological health and its economic development.
Though societies can’t expand industries indefinitely without impacting the natural world, unsustainable development pathways are becoming the norm today, and we have become so engrossed in the corporate ecosystem that we’ve forgotten to watch the deforestation, pollution, or resource exhaustion, severely threatening the world ecological infrastructure, forgetting that if resources are used faster than they can be replenished, damaging ecosystems beyond their ability to recover, we are jeopardizing all beings healthy survival.
A new global route challenges this course and claims that conservation can only succeed when local communities are treated as partners, and Indigenous knowledge, practice and experience drives the environmental approach, acknowledging that they have safeguarded ecosystems for generations, and that they must be listened more closely and be part of the decision-making.
A mindful experience of the nature to unlock deeper insights and drive a profound interconnectedness of life, is crucial to raise genuinely sustainable development pathways. Protection awareness must curtail the gap between projects/policies/experts and native communities, guardians of biodiversity, commonly left out of decision-making.
The future of conservation (and restoration) lies not just in science and its garnering practices, but much beyond it, in listening, blending modern research with deep-rooted Indigenous environmental knowledge – as it has been recognized in 2022 by the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), the landmark international agreement adopted in 2022 by the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), underscoring the importance of integrating Indigenous knowledge into conservation and calling to rethink the entrenched power dynamics
Despite this mounting awareness prioritizing community-led engagement and conservation, significant barriers remain, hold by scientists deprived of knowledge in social sciences principles.
https://www.khushiparisara.in/eco-awareness-eco-wiseness-for-a-sustainability-roadmap/
