I have never been a big fan of India’s Environmental Minister, Jairam Ramesh. The best way to describe him would be how the wonderful Gurcharan Das put it to me in an interview in Delhi last month: That Ramesh seems to be Greenpeace’s Environmental Minister.
Ramesh seems intent on stopping projects like Lavasa that do more good than harm for India’s environment, while at the same time, seems to be totally indifferent to the fact that pollution in the country gets worse with each passing day. I think what he lacks is a proper macro approach to environment-related issues, while at the same time hogging the limelight for big-ticket projects.
Having made such an assessment, I would like to complement the minister on his initiative to save the Byculla Zoo, one of the last green spaces in the island city.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/mumbai/Byculla-zoo-makeover-stuck/Article1-682575.aspx
The sprawling zoo and the wonderful museum and gardens near it, are among the city’s best kept secrets.
The Rani Bagh or Jijamata Udyan is where you will most of India’s British-era statues. They were apparently moved there in the middle of the night in the 1960s. I guess it’s better to move them there than to destroy those like some did to a Lenin statue in Moscow in 1991.
I do think the gardens and the zoo need to be maintained as well as the wonderful Victoria and Albert Museum (I refuse to call it the Bhau Daji Lad). If the state government wants a large zoological reserve, then they can build it somewhere in Raigad district, on the Maharashtra mainland.
Ramesh seems intent on stopping projects like Lavasa that do more good than harm for India’s environment, while at the same time, seems to be totally indifferent to the fact that pollution in the country gets worse with each passing day. I think what he lacks is a proper macro approach to environment-related issues, while at the same time hogging the limelight for big-ticket projects.
Having made such an assessment, I would like to complement the minister on his initiative to save the Byculla Zoo, one of the last green spaces in the island city.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/mumbai/Byculla-zoo-makeover-stuck/Article1-682575.aspx
The sprawling zoo and the wonderful museum and gardens near it, are among the city’s best kept secrets.
The Rani Bagh or Jijamata Udyan is where you will most of India’s British-era statues. They were apparently moved there in the middle of the night in the 1960s. I guess it’s better to move them there than to destroy those like some did to a Lenin statue in Moscow in 1991.
I do think the gardens and the zoo need to be maintained as well as the wonderful Victoria and Albert Museum (I refuse to call it the Bhau Daji Lad). If the state government wants a large zoological reserve, then they can build it somewhere in Raigad district, on the Maharashtra mainland.
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