Union minister for Environment and forest, Mr. Jairam Ramesh has planned to set a panel in order to enhance the scientific capacity of his ministry. The panel will be lead by former chief K .Kastuirangan and the names of the panel members will be announced on Thursday. Before setting the panel a network of scientists has already been launched by Mr. Ramesh.
Mr. Jairam Ramesh informed that the Environment Ministry was established in the year 1980 by the then Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi, which was conceived as a scientific ministry but the ministry lost it focus over the science as the time passed.
Other than Mr. Kasturirangan, the panel will be consisting of five eminent scientists from across the country. The role of the team will be to suggest the methods to bolster the scientific foundation of the Environment Ministry and to make it ensure that the decision making of the Ministry involves the influence of science and technology.
Mr. Ramesh said that the data presented by the western country is influenced with the biasness. The recently launched Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment (INCCA), which involves 127 research bodies, will work together with the ISRO in order to establish country's "monitoring, measuring and modelling" capabilities and to tackle the problem of climate change in an effective and innovative manner.
