Chandigarh, September 2 – Haryana Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal today released the book 'Haryana Environment and Pollution Code' compiled by former IAS officer and famous poet Smt. Dheera Khandelwal.

Congratulating Smt. Dheera Khandelwal on this occasion, Sh. Manohar Lal said that although Smt. Dheera Khandelwal has been associated with Literature,  whichever department she took over, she studied that department in depth.  While working in the Department of Environment and Climate Change, Smt. Dheera Khandelwal, understanding the problems faced by the department, compiled laws and rules, guidelines, etc. related to environment and pollution and gave it the form of a book, which shows her wonderful working style.

He said that environment is a serious subject on which awareness has been created in the world as well.  But lack of sufficient knowledge of laws and regulations related to environment is a big topic, so I hope this book will prove to be very useful for all the stakeholders.

Smt. Dheera Khandelwal thanked the Chief Minister for giving his valuable time to release her book.  Giving detailed information about this book, Smt. Khandelwal said that the laws and rules related to Haryana environment and pollution were scattered at different places but have been collected at one place for easy understanding.This book will prove useful to the entrepreneurs, who were deprived of complete knowledge of laws and regulations related to environment for setting up new ventures. Students, law researchers and practitioners will also be benefit from this book.

Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Sh. D.S. Dhesi, Additional Chief Secretary, Power Department, Sh. P.K.  Das, Chairperson, Haryana State Pollution Control Board, Dr. Sumita Misra, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Sh. V Umashankar, Deputy Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Smt. Ashima Brar, OSD to Chief Minister, Sh. Bhupeshwar Dayal, Member Secretary, Haryana Pollution Control Board, Sh. S Narayanan among other officers of Pollution Department were present on this occasion.