Member of Parliament (MPs) across different party lines got together in New Delhi on 5th December 2019 and agreed to establish a new, cross-party parliamentarian group for clean air. The group of MPs comprising Jairam Ramesh, Chairman of Parliamentary Committee on Environment and Forest (INC); Jagadambika Pal, Chairman Parliamentary Committee on Urban Development (BJP); Ram Mohan Naidu (TDP), Dr Kakoli Ghosh (AITMC), Dr T Sumathy (DMK), K.J Alphons (BJP) among others also agreed to meet again to discuss a private member’s bill proposing amendments in the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 being tabled by MP Gaurav Gogoi (INC) in the parliament on 6th Dec.
The roundtable was co-hosted by the office of Gaurav Gogoi, in partnership with the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC India).
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