Haritha Lanka program:
National Green Reporting system, a catalyst for cleaner environment
National Green Reporting program is a result of these initiatives by the Ministry under directions of Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa. “We have tried at numerous levels to bring policies and strategies to create a healthy safe environment for the people. With more industries coming up today we definitely need solid public-private partnership to meet the goal,” said Additional Secretary (Environment and policy) of the Environment Ministry Padmini Batuwitage in an interview with the Sunday Observer . Shedding the earlier concept of pollute first and remedy second we need to develop world class industries to succeed in the global market, she said.Finding high levels of heavy metals, fertilizer residues, toxic waste, sewage and manymore industrial waste in the water we drink and bathe, in the air we breathe and in the soil we walk on and grow our food, is sounding the final alarm of a perilous future. The time has come to put a halt to it. Understanding this fact, the Ministry of Environment is taking rapid action to stop this aggravated pollution considering the fast pace of the development activities taking place and the rapid boon in the newly emerging economy in the post war era.
Read full interview: http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2011/06/26/new18.asp
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