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.
The document goes on to highlight the principles underlying the policy that emphasise the
The objectives of the policy include:
The document outlines a range of strategies to meet these objectives that aim at:
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