Tamil Nadu CM unveils state's policy on environment

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami unveiled the State Environment Policy 2017 which has among its goals measures to tackle the impact of climate change.

Ensuring readiness to take necessary steps to face the impact of climate change, protecting environment resources, developing and renewing it, integrating environment dependent welfare schemes with development projects are among the goals of the policy, an official release said here on Friday. The policy document, prepared by the Environment Department,was received by Environment Minister K C Karupannan from the Chief Minister at the Secretariat on July 26 in the presence of top officials, including Chief Secretary Girija Vaidyanathan.