Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF)

The National Environment Policy (NEP) by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) aims at mainstreaming environmental concerns into all developmental activities. It emphasises conservation of resources, and points that the best way to aid conservation is to ensure that people dependent on resources obtain better livelihoods from conservation, than from degradation of the resources. It argues that environmental degradation often leads to poverty and poor health outcomes among populations.

This document published by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), expresses India's views and position taken in the context of the international negotiations on climate change that took place following the Bali Action Plan adopted in 2007, followed by attempts at negotiations carried by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in the light of the Copenhagen Summit in 2009.

This book contains a series of presentations made at the Seminar on Packaged Water Industry in India, organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on 30th June 2009. For more, please check India Water Portal's blog post here.

The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977 aims to provide for the levy and collection of a cess on water consumed by persons carrying on certain industries and by local authorities, with a view to augment the resources of the Central Board and the State Boards for the prevention and control of water pollution constituted under the Water (Prevention