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Pachauri only non-govt face in rejigged PM’s council

The 18-member council is made largely of present and former government servants.

The government Wednesday reconstituted the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change, a body that decides on policy direction on issues relating to climate change.

The 18-member council is made largely of present and former government servants. R K Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is the only non-government member. The previous council under UPA included Ratan Tata who then headed the Investment Commission, Sunita Narain of the Centre for Science and Environment, and journalists Raj Chengappa and R Ramachandran.

The council has not met for the last three years. First constituted in 2007, the council had framed India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change.

The new council:

Prime Minister (chairperson), Minister for External Affairs, Finance Minister, Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Agriculture Minister, Urban Development Minister, Science and Technology Minister, Power Minister, Cabinet Secretary, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary, Environment Secretary, R K Pachauri (chairperson IPCC), Nitin Desai (former Under Secretary-General UN), Chandrasekar Dasgupta (former Ambassador to EU), Ajay Mathur (head of Bureau of Energy Efficiency), and J M Mouskar (former Additional Secretary in Ministry of Environment and Forests).

First uploaded on: 06-11-2014 at 00:36 IST

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