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| Monday, 27 September 2004 |
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by Florence Wickramage The National Environment Act will be amended to enhance the efficiency and the productivity of the Central Environment Authority to provide a high quality environment as well as to ensure active community participation in the protection of the environment, Chairman CEA Tilak Ranaviraja said on Friday. Addressing the inaugural sessions of the newly set up Environment Forum at the Sri Lanka Institute of International Relations in Colombo Ranaviraja said that the CEA felt that there was a need for a focal point for scattered environmentalists to meet. Therefore the Environment Forum was set up through which community participation could also be harnessed to support the CEA in protecting the environment. The Environment Forum will provide suitable opportunities for everybody interested and experienced in the field of environment to meet, discuss and formulate appropriate policies and programmes in order to achieve expected goals. Ranaviraja said that there are many persons who have given leadership for Environment protection activities during the last 10 - 15 years and the CEA earnestly needed their support in its future activities. Some of these persons are occupying responsible positions in the public and private sector institutions, universities, acedemic fields, non-governmental organisations etc. Stressing the need to amend the National Environment Act to suit modern times, Ranaviraja said that the present National Environment Act is twenty five years old and was passed by Parliament in 1980. Though the CEA is the implementing organization of the Act strict legal provisions are important for its effective enforcement. International Jurist (Dr.) C. G. Weeramantry as Chief Guest on the occasion stressed in his speech that the traditional wisdom of our fore-fathers which preserved our environment during the past generations to hand it over intact to the present generation should be marshalled to ensure the success of effective implementation of environmental laws in the country for future posterity. |
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