Tree panels, BMCs inactive across Kerala
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Reviving them will help conserve environment, say environmetalists
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Reviving them will help conserve environment, say environmetalists
Even as different organisations and government departments are coming forward to celebrate the World Environment Day by planting trees on June 5, no attention is being given to give life to two mandatory bodies that can do a lot to preserve the environment.
Biodiversity management committees (BMCs) and tree committees in most civic bodies across the State are currently inactive and impotent. Although they do not have direct powers to take action against anyone for harming the environment, they can do a lot to help conserve the environment by bringing the culprits to book. “I am sad to say that BMCs in all panchayats and municipalities in Palakkad district are thoroughly inactive,” said Babu Bonaventure, district coordinator of the Biodiversity Board.