The committee said, "Air pollution has assumed gigantic proportions in our country. In such a scenario, the measures taken by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change for prevention and control of pollution and maintaining ecological balance have not been commensurate with the magnitude of the problem."

The Committee noted that the Ministry does not have enough funds. However, the funds which are made available to it, are not even fully utilized. Hence, targets which are set are not achieved, the committee said.

It also found that more and more rivers and water bodies were getting polluted and level of their pollution was increasing day by day. "Ministry utilized only Rs. 37.35 crore out of allocated Rs. 66.73 crore up to December, 2015 during 2015-16.

On the other hand, the Ministry complains of not having been provided adequate funds for the programme and on the other, it is able to expend only 56% of the allocation made." This, Committee termed as, "self-defeating approach."

The Ministry also failed to achieve 14 targets under the scheme of National Natural Resources Management System, in 2014-2015 and 2015-2016. Only 52.38 per cent of the total allocation was utilized till December 2015. The Committee recommended that the Ministry should take all possible efforts to ensure that the allocations made thereby are utilized fully.

The Ministry said that, "One of the main reasons behind non-achievement of the given target was non submission of UCs/ES in proper format along with the progress report by the concerned organizations/institutes despite follows up by the ministry." The Ministry also said that the late submission of documents from grantee organizations delayed the release of funds.UNI XC SHK 1958