Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
	Emblem of India
Agency overview
Formed	1947; 74 years ago
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	Indira Paryavaran Bhavan, Jorbagh Road, New Delhi
Annual budget	₹3,100 crore (US$430 million) (2020–21 est.)
Ministers responsible	Bhupender Yadav, Cabinet Minister; Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State;
Agency executives	C.K. Mishra, IAS, Secretary (EF&CC); Sanjay Kumar IFS, Director General of Forests and Special Secretary;
Website	www.moef.nic.in

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is an Indian government ministry. The ministry portfolio is currently held by Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.^[3]

The ministry is responsible for planning, promoting, coordinating, and overseeing the implementation of environmental and forestry programmes in the country. The main activities undertaken by the ministry include conservation and survey of the flora of India and fauna of India, forests and other wilderness areas; prevention and control of pollution; afforestation, and land degradation mitigation. It is responsible for the administration of the 1947 national parks of India.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is the cadre controlling authority of the Indian Forest Service (IFS), one of the three All India Services.

History[]

Environmental debates were first introduced into the national political agenda during Indira Gandhi's first term as Prime Minister of India. The 4th Five-Year Plan (1969–74), for example, proclaimed "harmonious development [...] on the basis of a comprehensive appraisal of environmental issues." In 1977 (during the Emergency) Gandhi added Article 48A to the constitution stating that: "The State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wildlife of the country." The same decree transferred wildlife and forests from state list to concurrent list of the constitution, thus giving the central government the power to overrule state decisions on that matter. Such political and constitutional changes prepared the groundwork for the creation of a federal Department of Environment in 1980, turned into the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 1985.^[4] Although tackling climate change was already a responsibility of the ministry, its priority was raised when in May 2014 the ministry was renamed to the current title of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.^[5]

Organisation[]

Indian Forest Service (IFS)
Authorities
- Central Zoo Authority of India, New Delhi,
- National Biodiversity Authority, Chennai
- National Tiger Conservation Authority, New Delhi
Subordinate offices
- Andaman & Nicobar Islands Forest and Plantation Development Corporation (Public Sector Undertaking)
- Animal Welfare Board of India, Chennai
- Botanical Survey of India (BSI), Kolkata
- Central Pollution Control Board
- (ENVIS) founded 1983^[6]
- Delhi Pollution Control Committee
- Directorate of Forest Education
- Forest Survey of India
- Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy
- National Afforestation and Eco-Development Board
- National Board of Wildlife
- National Institute of Animal Welfare
- National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), New Delhi
- National Zoological Park (NZP), New Delhi
- Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata
Centres of excellence
- Centre for Environment Education, Ahmedabad
- C. P. R. Environmental Education Centre, Chennai
- Centre for Animals and Environment, Bangalore
- Centre of Excellence in Environmental Economics, Chennai
- Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions, Bangalore
- Centre for Ecological Sciences, Bangalore
- Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystem, Delhi
- Centre for Mining Environment, Dhanbad
- Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON), Coimbatore
- Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute,^[7] Thiruvananthapuram
Autonomous institutions
- G. B.Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development, Almora
- Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal
- Indian Plywood Industries Research and Training Institute, Bengaluru
- Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), Dehradun
- Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, India

Ministers[]

Prakash Javadekar meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry at COP21 in Paris.

N	Name	Term of office		Political party (Alliance)	Prime Minister
1	Vallabhbhai Patel	1945	1946	Indian National Congress	Jawaharlal Nehru
2	Jawaharlal Nehru	1946	1947	Indian National Congress	Jawaharlal Nehru
3	Rafi Ahmed Kidwai	15 August 1947	2 August 1951	Indian National Congress	Jawaharlal Nehru
4	Amrit Kaur	2 August 1951	13 May 1952
5	Jagjivan Ram	13 May 1952	7 December 1956
6	Raj Bahadur	7 December 1956	17 April 1957
7	Lal Bahadur Shastri	17 April 1957	28 March 1958
8	S. K. Patil	29 March 1958	24 August 1959
9	Jawaharlal Nehru	25 August 1959	2 September 1959
10	P. Subbarayan	2 September 1959	9 April 1962
11	Jagjivan Ram	10 April 1963	31 August 1963
12	Ashoke Kumar Sen	1 September 1963	13 June 1964
—	Ashoke Kumar Sen	1 September 1963	13 June 1964		Lal Bahadur Shastri
13	Satya Narayan Sinha	13 June 1964	12 March 1967		Lal Bahadur Shastri
—	Satya Narayan Sinha	13 June 1964	12 March 1967		Indira Gandhi
14	Ram Subhag Singh	13 March 1967	14 February 1969
15	Satya Narayan Sinha	14 February 1969	8 March 1971
16	Indira Gandhi	9 March 1971	17 March 1971
17	Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna	2 May 1971	8 November 1973
18	Raj Bahadur	8 November 1973	11 January 1974
19	Kasu Brahmananda Reddy	11 January 1974	10 October 1974
20	Shankar Dayal Sharma	10 October 1974	24 March 1977
21	Morarji Desai	24 March 1977	26 March 1977	Janata Party	Morarji Desai
22	Parkash Singh Badal	26 March 1977	27 March 1977	Shiromani Akali Dal
23	George Fernandes	28 March 1977	6 July 1977	Janata Party
24	Brij Lal Varma	6 July 1977	28 July 1979	Janata Party
25	Charan Singh	28 July 1979	30 July 1979	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan Singh
26	Morarji Desai	30 July 1979	27 November 1979
27	Shyam Nandan Mishra	7 December 1979	14 January 1980
28	Bhishma Narain Singh	16 January 1980	3 March 1980	Indian National Congress	Indira Gandhi
29	P. V. Narasimha Rao	3 March 1980	2 September 1982
30	Inder Kumar Gujral	2 September 1982	14 February 1983
31	Rajiv Gandhi	31 October 1984	4 November 1988		Rajiv Gandhi
32	Bhajan Lal	25 June 1988	30 June 1989
33	Ziaur Rahman Ansari	4 July 1989	2 December 1989
34	V. P. Singh	2 December 1989	6 December 1989	Janata Dal	V. P. Singh
35	Nilamani Routray	6 December 1989	23 April 1990	Congress (Secular)
36	Maneka Gandhi	30 April 1990	5 November 1990	Janata Dal
37	Kamal Nath	10 November 1990	21 November 1990	Samajwadi Janata Party	Chandra Shekhar
38	Chandra Shekhar	21 November 1990	22 November 1990
39	Rajesh Pilot	22 November 1990	21 June 1991
40	H. D. Dewe Gowda	21 June 1991	17 January 1993	Indian National Congress	P. V. Narasimha Rao
41	Saifuddin Soz	17 January 1993	16 May 1996	Indian National Congress	P. V. Narasimha Rao
42	Suresh Prabhu	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	Bharatiya Janata Party	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
43	T. R. Baalu	1 June 1996	19 March 1998	Samajwadi Party	H. D. Dewe GowdaI. K. Gujral
44	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	19 March 1998	21 March 1999	Bharatiya Janata Party	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
45	Ramesh Bias	13 October 1999	1 September 2001	Janata Dal (United)
46	Pramod Mahajan	2 September 2001	28 January 2003	Bharatiya Janata Party
47	A. Raja	29 January 2003	22 May 2004	Bharatiya Janata Party
48	Manmohan Singh	23 May 2004	15 May 2007	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Manmohan Singh
49	Jairam Ramesh	16 May 2007	14 November 2010	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
50	Jayanthi Natarajan	15 November 2010	19 January 2011	Indian National Congress
51	M. Veerappa Moily	19 January 2011	26 May 2014	Indian National Congress
52	Prakash Javadekar	2014	2016	Bharatiya Janata Party	Narendra Modi
53	Anil Madhav Dave	2016	2017	Bharatiya Janata Party	Narendra Modi
54	Harsh Vardhan	18 May 2017	26 May 2020	Bharatiya Janata Party	Narendra Modi
55	Prakash Javadekar	26 May 2020	7 July 2021	Bharatiya Janata Party	Narendra Modi
56	Bhupender Yadav	7 July 2021		Bharatiya Janata Party	Narendra Modi

Ministers of State[]

	Minister	Period
1	Victor Hope	1945 — 1945
2	Archibald Wavell	1945 — 1946
3	Louis Mountbatten	1946 — 1947
4	Jawaharlal Nehru	1947 — 1950
5	Rajendra Prasad	1947 — 1950
6	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1950 — 1950
7	C. Rajagopalachari	1950 — 1951
8	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1951 — 1951
9	Morarji Desai	1951 — 1951
10	Zakir Husain	1951 — 1969
11	Charan Singh	1969 — 1969
12	V. V. Giri	1969 —1970
13	Indira Gandhi	1970 — 1972
14	Rajiv Gandhi	1972 — 1973
15	Vishwanath Pratap Singh	1973 — 1975
16	Chandra Shekhar	1975 — 1975
17	Indira Gandhi	1975 — 1984
18	Rajiv Gandhi	1984 – 1986
19	P. V. Narasimha Rao	1986 — 1986
20	Inder Kumar Gujral	1986 — 1986
21	H. D. Deve Gowda	1986 — 1987
22	Bhajan Lal	1987 – 1988
23	Ziaur Rehman Ansari(As MoS, Independent Charge till 25 June 1988)	14 February 1988 – 2 December 1989
24	V. P. Singh	2 December 1989 – 23 April 1990
25	Nilamani Routray	23 April 1990 – 10 November 1990
26	Maneka Gandhi(MoS, Independent Charge)	10 November 1990 – 21 June 1991
27	Kamal Nath(MoS, Independent Charge)	21 June 1991 – 15 September 1995
28	Rajesh Pilot(MoS, Independent Charge)	15 September 1995 – 16 May 1996
29		29 June 1996 – 21 February 1997
30	Saifuddin Soz	21 February 1997 – 19 March 1998
31	Suresh Prabhu	19 March 1998 – 13 October 1999
32	T. R. Baalu	13 October 1999 – 21 December 2003
33	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	21 December 2003 – 9 January 2004
34	(MoS, Independent Charge)	9 January 2004 – 22 May 2004
35	A. Raja	23 May 2004 – 15 May 2007
36	Manmohan Singh	15 May 2007 – 28 May 2009
37	Jairam Ramesh(MoS, Independent Charge)	28 May 2009 – 12 July 2011
38	Jayanthi Natarajan(MoS, Independent Charge)	12 July 2011 – 21 December 2013
39	M. Veerappa Moily	21 December 2013 – 26 May 2014
40	Prakash Javadekar(MoS, Independent Charge)	26 May 2014 – 5 July 2016
41	Anil Madhav Dave(MoS, Independent Charge)	5 July 2016 – 18 May 2017
42	Dr. Harsh Vardhan	18 May 2017 - 24 May 2019
43	Mahesh Sharma	2017 — 2019
44	Babul Supriyo	2019 — 2021
44	Ashwini Kumar Choubey	7 July 2021

Initiatives[]

In August 2019 Ministry of Environment released the Draft National Resource Efficiency Policy. It is a set of guidelines which envisions a future with environmentally sustainable and equitable economic growth. The policy is guided by principle of reduction in primary resource consumption; creation of higher value with less material through resource efficient circular approach; waste minimization; material security and creation of employment opportunities and business model beneficial to cause of environment protection and restoration.It was based on the report of NITI Aayog and European Union titled, The strategy on resource efficiency. The policy seeks to set up a National Resource Efficiency Authority with core working group housed in the Ministry. It also plans to offer tax benefits on recycled materials and soft loans to set up waste disposal and material recovery facilities.^[8]^[9]

References[]

^ "Contact Us | Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Government of India". Moef.gov.in. 31 July 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
^ "MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE DEMAND NO. 27 : Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change" (web). Indiabudget.gov.in. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
^ "Following Anil Daves death, Dr Harsh Vardhan gets additional charge of environment". Indiatoday.intoday.in. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
^ Sanjeev Khagram (2004) "Dams and Development", New York, Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-8907-5
^ "Ministry of environment and forests undergoes a nomenclature change". The Economic Times. 28 May 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
^ "About ENVIS".
^ "Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute | Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Government of India". Envfor.nic.in. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
^ "Comments called for on the Draft National Resource Efficiency Policy Released". Press Information Bureau. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
^ "EU-India joint declaration on resource efficiency and circular economy(PDF)". Consilium.europa.eu. Retrieved 10 September 2020.

External links[]

[1] "Contact Us | Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Government of India". Moef.gov.in. 31 July 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2016.

[2] "MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE DEMAND NO. 27 : Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change" (web). Indiabudget.gov.in. Retrieved 16 August 2018.

[intoday.in-3] "Following Anil Daves death, Dr Harsh Vardhan gets additional charge of environment". Indiatoday.intoday.in. Retrieved 16 August 2018.

[Khagram-4] Sanjeev Khagram (2004) "Dams and Development", New York, Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-8907-5

[5] "Ministry of environment and forests undergoes a nomenclature change". The Economic Times. 28 May 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2016.

[6] "About ENVIS".

[7] "Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute | Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Government of India". Envfor.nic.in. Retrieved 16 June 2016.

[8] "Comments called for on the Draft National Resource Efficiency Policy Released". Press Information Bureau. Retrieved 10 September 2020.

[9] "EU-India joint declaration on resource efficiency and circular economy(PDF)". Consilium.europa.eu. Retrieved 10 September 2020.

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Emblem of India
Formed	1947; 74 years ago (1947)
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	Indira Paryavaran Bhavan, Jorbagh Road, New Delhi^[1]
Annual budget	₹3,100 crore (US$430 million) (2020–21 est.)^[2]
Ministers responsible	Bhupender Yadav, Cabinet Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State
Agency executives	C.K. Mishra, IAS, Secretary (EF&CC) Sanjay Kumar IFS, Director General of Forests and Special Secretary
Website	www.moef.nic.in

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