Govt renews pledge to Paris pact, environment

Harsh Wardhan is yet to meet the media as part of the NDA government's three-year outreach

Connecting people to nature. That is the theme the UN has chosen for the World Environment Day this year. This is how the UN suggests we celebrate it. It “implores us to get outdoors and into nature, to appreciate its beauty and its importance, and to take forward the call to protect the Earth that we share”.

But, as the UN website admits, billions of people living in rural surroundings do directly connect to nature. So, this is a call to the rest. That implies, in India it is an entreaty to about 30 per cent of the population living in